I just recently got Pages, I'm not sure how to fix this. I don't want hyphens at the end of lines breaking up words throughout my document, so I unchecked hyphenation and everything is fine in Pages. But I need the document in Word, and when I export as a Word file, the hyphens reappear at the end of lines. How do I stop Pages from inserting the hyphens at the end of lines when it exports a file as a Word document?
There are two locations where one enables/disables Pages hyphenation. It is not clear whether either will override Pages v5 sense of exportation folly. As the Pages v5 to Word transformation (export) takes place, there may be internal MS Word formatting rules that Pages may attempt to follow (or disobey) that can lead to your hyphenation issue.
I don't think it is Pages that is forcing hyphenation, it sounds to me like that is the local setting in Word.
Check your Word Preferences/Text formatting.
Peter
I don't actually have Word on my Mac (that's why I'm using Pages...) . When I look at the Word version in Pages, it shows the hyphens, and when I look at the Word file in LibreOffice it also shows the hyphens. The hyphens don't show up in LibreOffice normally, only in Word files created via exporting from Pages.
It's definitely turned off in the document panel. My Format --> Text does not have a "More" option, under Format --> Text there are only options for aligning, justifying, and indenting.
I assumed that you are using Pages v5. If that is still true, then here is the panel for item 2 in my previous post. Click to enlarge.
Sorry, I misunderstood and looked at the Format > Text at the menu along the top. I'm using version 5.2. But hyphenation is also unchecked in the Text > More section, too. I re-converted it to Word again, but having hyphenation unchecked in both places doesn't seem to keep the extra hyphens from showing up. Thanks anyway...
I have the same problem with hyphenation. It will not save my settings. The default settings also reoccur in the header & page numbers. I am so frustrated with Pages. All of my professors require papers submitted in a Word document. Trying to get the paper to look acceptable after exporting pages to word takes longer than writing the actual paper!!!
Well, Pages v5 does not work in the native Word document format. Document translation in, and translation out. You have no control over what goes on in that export process — including Pages coercion to ignore hyphens on the way back to Word. Turning off hyphenation only works in the presently viewed Pages document format, not what Pages uses for export translation rules back to Word.
I accidentally found a way to correct this issue. I'm not sure if it's a long term solution but it seems to be working for me at this time. I have closed & reopened, printed, & emailed the document & the hyphens have not returned. The Word document looks identical to the Pages document.
This is what I did...
After saving the document, the hyphenation does not reappear HOWEVER under the "Document" tab, hyphenation & ligatures remain checked. I don't know why this works but it does for now.
Hi khest,
All of my professors require papers submitted in a Word document.
Don't annoy your professors! Do what they say and use Word for Mac or an app that is a Word clone, such as LibreOffice.
Exporting and importing between Pages and Word will cause frustration and waste your time.
Good luck with your studies!
Ian.
I had the same trouble when I converted an old WordPerfect document to Word for Mac. After trying a bunch of the ideas above, I emailed the original WP version to myself and opened it on a PC with that version of Word. It was fine. Then, when I emailed it back to myself and opened it on my Mac, the hyphenation was cleared up.
Yet another problem with Word for Mac that doesn't exist on the PC versions.
When exporting as Word, stop inserting hyphens
