When to Hyphenate Your Document

I use manual hyphenation rather than automatic because it gives me more control over where words are hyphenated.
For proper names and made-up fantasy words, there is no way to set default hyphenation points, and Word's assumption doesn't always match the way I intended it to be pronounced.
Even some common words are hyphenated in places that are obviously wrong. For instance, Word hyphenates "although" "alt-hough," even though the TH is a compound letter (I've forgotten the grammatical name for it) that shouldn't be split. It also insists "dwarves" should be "dwa-rves," when in fact it is only one syllable, and even if it was two, surely one of them wouldn't begin "RV"...
Even when manually hyphenating, it is too easy to be clicking Yes, Yes, Yes...oops, and Undo undoes the WHOLE hyphenation session. So, I have created a Find and Replace macro that either moves or removes all the incorrect hyphens, and run it after each time I hyphenate (which I do every time I add text -- I don't understand the reason behind waiting, either).
Most of the time, Word abides by the grammar rule that hyphenated words should have at least two letters on the first line and at least three on the second, but I have one document in which it hyphenates words so that only two letters are on the second line. Rather than go crazy trying to figure out what made that document different, I figured out a wildcard search to add to the macro that will remove those hyphens as well (in most documents, there's simply nothing for it to find).

Ok, I know where the confusion is coming from - and I got it from trying to answer Bandito's question of "where to find it?"

(BTW, it's on "Page Layout" tab, first button group - "Page setup").

And when you get there and click the "Hyphenation" button, one of the options popping out is "Manual". Apparently that's the point all the items in this article refer to. I don't remember seeing manual hyphenation in pre-Ribbon versions of Word (and I still use the Alt, T, L, H shortcut to get to the automatic hyphenation dialog).

I still don't see the benefit of manual hyphenation though - unless you have a really weak PC that has trouble coping with automatic hyphenation, but that's not the kind of PC you would install Office 2013 or Windows 7 anyway.

I agree with some of the others here regarding the autohypehnate option. Doesn't it do the job as you create and edit your document?

Also, when mentioning a tool available in Word, it would be nice if you mentioned where to find it.

Keep sharing!

None of the bullet points that denote some of the conditions that affect the layout after hyphenation must affect your work. The point of the article seems (to me) to be cautious when those kinds of changes occur.

PFL, I'm still not getting it. As Maryland points out, I just enable hyphenation, and Word hyphenates my document automatically. Hyphenation is then readjusted automatically whenever I edit text, change margins, printers, machines, whatever.

I don't understand how turning autohyphenate "On" from the outset makes me worse off. It has no effect on spell checking, live or otherwise. I write proposals that are nearly always page-limited. I rely on autohyphenation to let me fit a paragraph into as few lines as possible. I can't wait until it's time to PDF; I need to know long before then whether a sentence must be cut or a figure repositioned or rethought.

Damear, I think you missed the entire concept of the article. Read it critically again.

Doesn't hyphenation work automatically in the background, so you don't need to hyphenate every five minutes?