Applies To
Publisher for Microsoft 365 Publisher 2021 Publisher 2019 Publisher 2016 Publisher 2013 Publisher 2010

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Let Publisher do some work for you. Use its automatic hyphenation feature to hyphenate text.

  1. Click in the text box or table frame that contains the text you want to hyphenate.

  2. On the Format tab, in the Text group, click Hyphenation.

  3. Select the Automatically hyphenate this story check box.

Note: If you select a text box that is part of a story, the text in all the connected text boxes becomes hyphenated as well.

See Also

Hyphenate text manually

Fix text hyphenation

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