Full Justification makes spaces between words uneven - how to break the last word of a line in two?

Question

I am writing  a long document - a collection of stories. With a full justification on both sides, spaces between words are uneven, often stretched out to be justified. How can I break the last word of a line so that the rest of the characters in the word go to the next line?

Answer 1

See: http://www.officetooltips.com/word/tips/using_automatic_hyphenation.html

You may also get better results if you set Word's 'Layout Options' to apply WordPerfect 6 justification. See under File|Options|Advanced>Layout Options (way down at the bottom).

Answer 2

See: http://www.officetooltips.com/word/tips/using_automatic_hyphenation.html

You may also get better results if you set Word's 'Layout Options' to apply WordPerfect 6 justification. See under File|Options|Advanced>Layout Options (way down at the bottom).

Thanks. 

I also found one way to wrap trailing spaces to next line by the following:

Go to File>Options>Advanced and scroll to the bottom of the dialog and expand the Layout Options item and then check the box for "Wrap trailing spaces to next line".

I still have problems with the using of an hyphenation in the document. After the above, hyphenations  screw up the line. So I had to remove all existing hyphenation such as (1642 AD -1662 AD).  Any hyphenation in the document expand the spaces and makes spacing in the line awful.

Answer 3

May I ask why you need the "Wrap trailing spaces to next line" compatibility option? Instead of adding excessive space characters, you can use indents and tabs to "move" text.

Answer 4

You can manually hyphenate using Ctrl+Hyphen to insert an optional hyphen.

Answer 5

You can manually hyphenate using Ctrl+Hyphen to insert an optional hyphen.

Suzanne,

Thank you so much for responding to my query.

As I said, not to have uneven spaces between words after a full justification, I did go File>Options>Advanced. Scroll to the bottom of the dialog and expand the "Layout Options" and then check the box for "Wrap trailing spaces to next line" to the bottom of the dialog.

I worked, however, there is a problem. In this way I cannot use hyphenation in such case as 1642 AD -1662 AD. A hyphen disarrays the entire line. 

I followed your instruction "You can manually hyphenate using Ctrl+Hyphen to insert an optional hyphen."

Yes, I pressed CTRL and clicked "-" to insert a hyphen. But no avail. Am I doing wrong?

Note: I  could not use "Do full justification the way word perfect 6+ for window does." because  it still gave uneven spaces after full justification, taking more pages.)

Thank you,

Sukza