If REPLACE does not work it is because you have space next to the hyphen. Now you will need to slowly cursor left and right in that string, deleting characters until one of them starts to "highlight" as grey. So, copy several text characters around the soft hyphen, then paste this into Search&Replace dialog. Go to the Text Flow tab, and unclick "Automatically" under Hyphenation.įor some reason the Regular Expression DID NOT work for me.īut I assure readers that the copy - paste into Search&Replace - remove all but the soft hyphen character - Replace with blank method DID work but as you were warned REQUIRES YOU TO BE CLEVER AND IS TRICKY. (or right click/control click in your selection and choose Paragraph. go to the Format menu and choose Paragraph. If you don't want to mess with styles, there's another way to remove hyphenation:
#How to remove auto hyphenation in word manual#
(Thus using styles and not manual formatting is usually better) If this is the case, you can select the paragraphs in question, then go to the Format menu and chose "Default Formatting" BUT this will remove all the other formatting changes you made that are contrary to the chosen style.
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without using a style) to the paragraph, the hyphenation change may not appear in your text. Second, if you have applied other formatting "manually" (e.g. (make sure you have the paragraph icon selected in the styles palette first) If you open the Styles palette (which is what F11 does-although on Macs that key is used for other things), then click in the offending paragraph, the style used for that paragraph will be highlighted. If you don't use styles regularly, that's likely to be Default, but may not be if the document originated with someone else. First, you have to modify the style that is being used on the text in question. Gave me the clue, and it does work, with a couple of caveats: Right click the Default paragraph style > Modify > Text Flow tab and uncheck Automatic under Hyphenation. Sorry if this isn't appropriate here, but I wasn't able to quickly find any help on Word forums for this and my Google also showed this topic which provided the answer I needed immediately. Now just replace all of the *** with nothing and your text is all cleaned up. Click "Replace All" and all of your soft hyphens are replaced with ***.ħ. Now just enter anything into the "replace" box that you know is not in the document. At this point, your "invisible hyphen" is all that is remaining in the "find" box.ĥ. Then position to the beginning and delete "awak". While at the end of the word, backspace over "gnine". Select the whole word and paste it into a find-replace.Ģ. I had the same problem with the soft hyphen not being able to be selected to do a search on.
#How to remove auto hyphenation in word license#
Here are two methods that work for me:Īlthough I'm not currently using OO (I'm using Word at this time since I got a good deal on a license from my work), this tip did work for me, so I thought I would post it in case anyone else is looking for the same solution for Word (and maybe this just might clear up some confusion here). You can select them, you just have to be a little creative. I assume you mean that it's not possible to copy them because you can't select them-is that right? If it wasn't possible, I wouldn't have suggested it. It's not possible to copy them because they have zero length. The only way to solve it was to type in the regular expression value directly.
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They clearly cannot be copied using those 2 methods.
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This whole issue is about "optional hyphens" and only about "optional hyphens." I can easily *type* a hyphen using my keyboard. You can copy a hyphen with both of those methods, yes.īut I don't need to copy a hyphen in the first place. I can assure you, I tried both of those methods *before* posting here and both of them clearly DO NOT work. That will select one character, the soft hyphen. Then hold Shift and arrow one more step to the right. Use the cursor keys instead of the mouse: move to the position before the character before the hyphen, then use the right arrow key to move one position to the right (i.e.For me, the soft hyphen is visible in the dialog. Select & copy some characters on either side, paste into the dialog, then delete the extra characters.Acknak wrote:You can select them, you just have to be a little creative.