You’ve reached the end of a line but are still halfway through typing a word. This can lead to a large gap at the end of the line in a Word document. Or if your text is formatted as justified, large gaps can appear between the words if syllables are not separated at the end of the lines.
Hyphenation in Word is a handy way to separate words at the end of lines in a linguistically correct manner, and to avoid such problems. It can be turned on and off as desired. When deactivated, words are not separated, but a new line is started for words which are too long. With automatic hyphenation enabled in Word, words at the end of lines are broken in grammatically correct places. We'll show you how to use this feature, what individual settings are available, and which advantages hyphenation provides you with in Word.