Adding automatic or manual hyphenation is the way forward. And poor old Mr Long Word is still dangling a letter onto the next line. Oh no! In its effort to make everything tidy, Word has carefully inserted huge spaces between words (unlike someone typesetting properly on a computer or by hand, it doesn’t space out the letters in the words so much as just add massive spaces). Maybe we can neaten it up by applying Right Justification … In fact, as you can see (marked by the arrow), one word is just too long for the line and splits at the last letter, something which doesn’t obey any of the standard rules of hyphenation (I bet this has happened in your tables – it has in my clients’). 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.

Word wrap microsoft word 2003