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After you insert a picture in your document, you can control how surrounding text flows around it. You can either turn wrapping off or you can cause Word to flow text around the image. To control text wrapping for a graphic, follow these steps:
Once you have selected a wrapping method, you can modify the wrapping points using the techniques described in other WordTips. (Modifying the wrapping points allows you to get text very close to your image, including on top of it, if desired.)
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2017-03-25 09:58:42
Allen, When I was tasked by a publisher to prepare a document for publication, I was asked not to allow hyphenation with less than three letters at the end or the beginning of a line. My method was to create a macro that cancelled checking the offending word, represented by the following macro:
Sub DlRemHyphenation()
' Select word from which to remove hyphenation
' Used to eliminate any part of a hyphenated word with less than 3 letters
' Shortcut = Alt+H
Selection.LanguageID = wdEnglishUS
Selection.NoProofing = True
Application.CheckLanguage = False
End Sub
Example: ad-
vice. or excit-
ed.
This has worked well for over a decade, but the only problem is that I have to visually search for the offending word. I've always wanted to ask you how can I find each hyphen with two only two characters separated by an automatic hyphen so I can run the macro, perhaps combining both operations in one macro. However, I was not able to find the symbol that Word uses for this automatic macro. Is there a way to do that?
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