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Let Publisher do some work for you. Use its automatic hyphenation feature to hyphenate text.
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Click in the text box or table frame that contains the text you want to hyphenate.
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On the Format tab, in the Text group, click Hyphenation.
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Select the Automatically hyphenate this story check box.
Note:Â If you select a text box that is part of a story, the text in all the connected text boxes becomes hyphenated as well.