If there are too many ragged lines in your document, Word's automatic hyphenation feature can help align your paragraphs, tables, or entire text and make them look pretty...
Word automatic hyphenation feature can help reduce white spaces within justified paragraphs and even out the ragged edges of left-aligned paragraphs. You can use the automatic hyphenation feature to ensure a minimum of space, such as 0.1,\" lies between the end of the last word in a line and the right margin (Example – see ¶2, second sentence). However, you don't want too much of a good thing, so Word also lets you limit the number of consecutive lines that end with a hyphen, and this is how we do it:
1. Go to Tools | Language | Hyphenation.
2. Click the Automatically Hyphenate Document check box.
3. In the Hyphenation Zone box, click the down arrow until it displays 0.1.\"
4. Enter 2 in the Limit Consecutive Hyphens To box.
5. Click OK.
Word will hyphenate the existing text in the document according to your instructions, allowing only two consecutive hyphenated lines. Once set, Word will continue to hyphenate the document
automatically as you type.
There may be times when you would like to use hyphenation to reduce ragged edges in only certain parts of your document, such as tables. To have Word hyphenate only those parts of a document, follow these steps:
1. Select the areas of your document you do not want hyphenated. (If the areas are not contiguous, press [Ctrl] while you select them.)
2. Go to Format | Paragraph and click on the Line And Page Breaks tab.
3. Click the Don't Hyphenate check box, and then click OK.
You can now follow steps 1 through 5 above to activate automatic hyphenation for the rest of the
document.