IBM Lotus Symphony


Using automatic and manual hyphenation in IBM Lotus Symphony Documents

By default, Lotus® Symphony™ moves words that do not fit on a line to the next line. If you want, you can use automatic or manual hyphenation to avoid this behavior:

Automatic hyphenation

Automatic hyphenation inserts hyphens where they are needed in a paragraph. This option is only available for paragraph styles and individual paragraphs.

To automatically hyphenate text in a paragraph:

  1. Right-click in a paragraph, and choose Paragraph Properties.

  2. Click the Text Flow tab.

  3. In the Hyphenation area, select the Automatically check box.

  4. Click OK.

To automatically hyphenate text in multiple paragraphs:

If you want to automatically hyphenate more than one paragraph, use a paragraph style.

For example, enable the automatic hyphenation option for the "Default" paragraph style, and then apply the style to the paragraphs that you want to hyphenate.

  1. Choose Layout - Style List, and then select Paragraph Styles from the Style type list.

  2. Right-click the paragraph style that you want to hyphenate, and then choose Modify.

  3. Click the Text Flow tab.

  4. In the Hyphenation area, select the Automatically check box.

  5. Click OK.

  6. Apply the style to the paragraphs that you want to hyphenate.

Manual Hyphenation

You can insert a hyphen where you want on a line, or let Lotus Symphony search for the words to hyphenate, and then offer a suggested hyphenation.

To manually hyphenate text in a selection:

  1. Select the text that you want to hyphenate.

  2. Choose Tools > Hyphenation.

  3. When Lotus Symphony encounters a word to hyphenate, do one of the following:


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