Word 2016 For Professionals For Dummies. Dan Gookin

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      As an example of how this effect is applied, you can set the paragraph shading to black and then use the Font Color command to set the text color to white. The result is white-on-black text.

      If you choose to apply the Shading command to an entire paragraph, prepare to be disappointed: The shading attribute affects only the paragraph within the confines of its left and right indentation settings. Further, any space before or after the paragraph is not shaded.

      When applied to multiple paragraphs, the Shading command does affect the space between the paragraphs, but again, not the space before the first paragraph or after the last.

      Hyphenation

      Thanks to proportional typefaces, and Word’s capability to adjust spacing between words, rarely do you think about hyphenation. You can still hyphenate a long word, splitting it between two lines, and readers will understand and accept. Often it’s better to hyphenate a word than to keep the word intact and destroy any uniformity with a paragraph’s right indentation.

Word’s Hyphenation feature can check a document and automatically apply hyphens where needed. If you prefer to apply your own hyphenation, then use the hyphen character (–), also called the minus sign. That character splits words at the end of a line, such as the one illustrated in Figure 2-9. See the ugly gap?

      FIGURE 2-9: Hyphenating a long word.

      To hyphenate the word, follow these steps:

      1. Click the mouse to place the insertion pointer at the appropriate spot.

      You hyphenate a word between two syllables or double letters. If you don’t know the exact position, refer to a dictionary.

      2. Press the – (hyphen) key.

      The word is split between two lines, as illustrated in Figure 2-9.

      For better results, in Step 2 press Ctrl+(hyphen), the optional hyphen character. Unlike the standard hyphen character, the optional hyphen character vanishes from view when the word doesn’t need to be hyphenated. It’s still in the text, but appears only when needed.

      ❯❯ To view optional, hidden hyphens, use the Show/Hide command. The optional hyphen character appears as the ¬ symbol. This character is known as a logical negation symbol, which is pronounced “not.”

Automatically hyphenating text

      You don’t need to fuss with hyphenation, providing that you activate Word’s Hyphenation feature. When activated, Word automatically inserts the optional hyphen characters in your text as needed.

      To activate automatic hyphenation, obey these directions:

      1. Click the Layout tab.

      2. In the Page Setup group, click the Hyphenation button.

      3. From the menu, choose Automatic.

      Once active, Word hyphenates all text in the document, as well as new text you type. You may see hyphens added and removed quickly as you work on the text.

If you prefer to review Word’s hyphenation choices, choose Manual in Step 3. You see the Manual Hyphenation dialog box, shown in Figure 2-10. Click to place the hyphen and then click Yes to hyphenate the word. Click No to leave the word unhyphenated.

      FIGURE 2-10: The Manual Hyphenation dialog box.

      Continue to work the Manual Hyphenation dialog box to hyphenate (or not) the entire document. When hyphenation is complete, click OK.

      Manual hyphenation isn’t interactive; it’s done all at once. So, after you choose Manual, the None option is chosen from the Hyphenation menu and automatic hyphenation is disabled.

Inserting an unbreakable hyphen

      An unbreakable hyphen prevents Word from splitting text you don’t want split, such as a phone number or a mathematical equation.

      To insert the unbreakable hyphen character, press Ctrl+Shift+(hyphen). It looks like a regular hyphen, but Word won’t split the text between two lines.

      Just as you can insert an unbreakable hyphen, you can also insert a nonbreaking space when you don’t want words split between two lines. The nonbreaking space character keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+spacebar.

      Of Widows and Orphans

      If you can judge a culture by how it treats widows and orphans, you can also judge a document. That’s because many graphic designers detest having one or two lines from a paragraph split between two pages.

      ❯❯ A single line lingering atop the page is called a widow.

      ❯❯ A single line lagging at the bottom of the page is called an orphan.

      In both cases, the single line is part of a paragraph that couldn’t all fit on the previous or next page. Word features various remedies to cure these typographical troublemakers.

      Word is preset to automatically СКАЧАТЬ