If you just put your text in your column and don’t justify it on the right hand side, you will end up with a very ragged look: It is useful, however, if you are working with columns, say in a table, or for a newsletter you’re publishing, or some other part of a document where you want to have a narrow band of text running down the page. Where did all these hyphens come from, I wondered. In fact I hardly ever see it in the work I do, and was only reminded of it when a client had accidentally set automated hyphenation in part of his document that happened to contain long words. This issue doesn’t normally come up with standard documents where the text is in a smallish size and extends across the entire width of the page. Why would I want to add hyphens to a document?
This article explains how to add and remove hyphenation in a Word document, and how to work with the options you have in the hyphenation menu.
