Hyphenate text in another language

Some of the content in this topic may not be applicable to some languages.

Set up your system to work with multiple languages.
How?

Do one of the following to install multilingual support for:

Windows 2000

This procedure applies only if you are running a language version of Microsoft Windows 2000 that doesn't match the language you want to type. To enter characters for Baltic, Central European, Cyrillic, Greek, and Turkish languages in Microsoft Office programs, do the following:
1. On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
2. Double-click the Regional Options icon, and then click the General tab.
3. In the Language settings for the system box, select the check boxes next to the languages you want to use.
Windows 98 or Windows Millennium Edition

This procedure applies only if you are running a language version of Microsoft Windows 98 or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition that doesn't match the language you want to type. Use this procedure when you want to be able to enter characters for Baltic, Central European, Cyrillic, Greek, and Turkish languages in Microsoft Office programs.
1. On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
2. Double-click the Add/Remove Programs icon.
3. Click the Windows Setup tab.
4. In the Components list, click MultiLanguage Support, and then click Details.
5. Select the check boxes next to the languages you want to use.
Windows NT 4.0

System support for multiple languages in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 is automatically installed.
Enable the languages that you want to use.
How?
1. On the Microsoft Windows Start menu, point to Programs, point to Microsoft Office Tools, and then click Microsoft Office XP Language Settings.
2. Click the Enabled Languages tab.
3. In the Available languages box, select the language you want to enable.
4. Click Add.
If any Microsoft Office programs are running, the Language Settings tool notifies you and automatically closes the programs. The features for the language you enabled appear the next time you start an Office program.

Note If you see (limited support) next to a language in the Available languages box, you may need to install additional system support for the language. The available support depends on your operating system.
Install the hyphenation tool for the language you want.
If you hyphenate text in another language, and the correct hyphenation tool isn't available on your computer, then Microsoft Word will try to install it automatically. If Word can't install the correct hyphenation tool, then you may need to obtain the correct tool from the Microsoft Office XP Proofing Tools. Proofing Tools is available for purchase at Shop.microsoft.com or outside the United States from a licensed reseller.

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Turn on automatic language detection.
How?
If you're working in more than one language within a document, Microsoft Word can automatically detect each language as you type it.

Note To use this feature, you must first set up your computer to support multilingual editing, and then enable the languages you want to use for editing.
1. On the Tools menu, point to Language, and then click Set Language.
2. Select the Detect language automatically check box.
Notes
- To turn off automatic language detection in your document, clear the Detect language automatically check box.
- To turn off the automatic detection of a particular language, remove it from the list of enabled languages in the Microsoft Office Language Settings tool. Remove the language only if you don't want to use features particular to that language (for example, date formats) in Word and other Microsoft Office programs.
Hyphenate text as usual.
How?
Do any of the following:

Automatically hyphenate all of a document
1. On the Tools menu, point to Language, and then click Hyphenation.
2. Select the Automatically hyphenate document check box.
3. In the Hyphenation zone box, enter the amount of space to leave between the end of the last word in a line and the right margin.
  To reduce the number of hyphens, make the hyphenation zone wider. To reduce the raggedness of the right margin, make the hyphenation zone narrower.
4. In the Limit consecutive hyphens to box, enter the number of consecutive lines that can be hyphenated.
Automatically hyphenate part of a document
1. Select the text you don't want to hyphenate.
2. On the Format menu, click Paragraph, click the Line and Page Breaks tab, and then select the Don't hyphenate check box.
3. Click OK.
4. On the Tools menu, point to Language, and then click Hyphenation.
5. Select the Automatically hyphenate document check box.
6. In the Hyphenation zone box, enter the amount of space to leave between the end of the last word in a line and the right margin.
  To reduce the number of hyphens, make the hyphenation zone wider. To reduce the raggedness of the right margin, make the hyphenation zone narrower.
7. In the Limit consecutive hyphens to box, enter the number of consecutive lines that can be hyphenated.
Manually hyphenate all of a document
1. Make sure no text is selected.
2. On the Tools menu, point to Language, and then click Hyphenation.
3. Click Manual.
4. If Microsoft Word identifies a word or phrase to hyphenate, do one of the following:
  - To insert an optional hyphen in the location Word proposes, click Yes.
  - To insert an optional hyphen in another part of the word, use the arrow keys or mouse to move the insertion point to that location, and then click Yes.
Manually hyphenate part of a document
1. Select the text you want to hyphenate.
2. On the Tools menu, point to Language, and then click Hyphenation.
3. Click Manual.
4. If Microsoft Word identifies a word or phrase to hyphenate, do one of the following:
  - To insert an optional hyphen in the location Word proposes, click Yes.
  - To insert an optional hyphen in another part of the word, use the arrow keys or mouse to move the insertion point to that location, and then click Yes.