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Word: Turn off automatic hyphenation

December 5, 2011

I got a document from one of my authors the other day. Automatic hyphenation was turned on and I wanted to turn it off as it isn’t our house style to use it.

I had to hunt a bit to find the setting in Word 2007/2010 (I couldn’t find it at all in Word 2003!) — it was on Page Layout tab, which wasn’t where I expected to find it.

To turn off auto hyphenation in Word 2007/2010:

  1. Go to the Page Layout tab > Page Setup group.
  2. Click Hyphenation.
  3. Select None.
Auto hyphenation setting in Word 2007

Auto hyphenation setting in Word 2007

That’s it!

Posted in Grammar & Punctuation, Word |

8 comments

  1. Word 2003:
    Tools>Language has the setting for the entire document.
    Format>Paragraph, Line and Page Breaks tab has a checkbox to suppress hyphenation for a selection.

         by Rodney December 13, 2012 at 8:20 pm

  2. Thanks Mr. Rodney
    Really helpful comment.

         by Shanavas May 21, 2013 at 3:27 pm

  3. Word 2007 also:
    Tools>Language has the setting for the entire document.
    Format>Paragraph, Line and Page Breaks tab has a checkbox to suppress hyphenation for a selection.

         by Shanavas May 21, 2013 at 3:28 pm

  4. great – precise hint to turn off an anoying MS error message

         by wre November 25, 2013 at 7:10 pm

  5. Thank you!

         by Sue April 23, 2014 at 3:12 am

  6. Thank you. A very straightforward description.

         by Snoop March 19, 2016 at 7:58 pm

  7. Thank you!

         by Stanislava Moskalevska September 28, 2017 at 4:59 pm

  8. didn’t work. any other bright ideas?

         by undinesmind October 27, 2017 at 6:18 am

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