Hyphenation in selected paragraphs

Although the hyphenation values you select in the Form Properties and Options dialog boxes apply to the text in the entire form, you can use the Hyphenate option in the Paragraph palette to add or remove hyphenation in individual paragraphs. Use the Hyphenate option to manually adjust text layout on an object-by-object basis.

You can hyphenate the text in the caption area of objects such as text fields, decimal fields, and numeric fields, and the value area of text field objects (default text and text the form filler enters).

It is recommended that you become familiar with the various options you need to select for objects that contain hyphenated text. (See Hyphenate text.)

When the Hyphenate New Items is selected in the Options dialog box on the Formatting page, the Hyphenation option is automatically selected with new objects added to a form.

To hyphenate the text in a selected paragraph

  1. To enable) the Hyphenate option in the Paragraph palette, do one of the following actions:

    • (New forms) Select Tools > Options > Formatting, and then choose Allow Hyphenation in Text and Field Captions, or Allow Hyphenation in Text Field Values, or both.

    • (Current form) Select File > Form Properties > Formatting > and choose Allow Hyphenation in Text and Field Captions, or Allow Hyphenation in Text Field Values, or both.

  2. Select the text to hyphenate.

  3. (Does not apply to text objects) In the Paragraph palette, click the Currently Editing palette menu and do one of the following actions:

    • To hyphenate caption and data value text, select Edit Caption and Value.

    • To hyphenate only caption text, select Edit Caption.

    • To hyphenate only data value text, select Edit Value.

  4. To hyphenate the text in the value area of text field objects, in the Object palette, on the Field tab, select Allow Multiple Lines.

  5. In the Layout palette, select Expand to Fit (Width), or Expand to Fit (Height), or both.

  6. In the Paragraph palette, select Hyphenate. The change is applied.

To remove hyphenation from a selected paragraph

 Click the text to remove hyphenation from and, in the Paragraph palette, deselect Hyphenate. The change is applied.

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