How do I turn off auto-hyphenation on Pages 2.5 for iPad? Thanks!

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Linzj Author

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How do I turn off auto-hyphenation on Pages 2.5 for iPad? Thanks!

THe auto-hyphenation is driving me crazy. Is there a way to get rid of it? I'm using Pages 2.5 for iPad.

Posted on Jan 5, 2015 7:49 AM

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Answer 1

Apr 14, 2015 2:59 PM in response to Linzj

Linzj,

You were not imagining. There is a default hyphenation in Pages '09. Here's how you can disable it per document but apparently not forever!

See: Pages '09: Using Automatic Hyphenation

Pages '09: Using Automatic Hyphenation

By default, Pages automatically hyphenates words if they need to break at the end of a line.

Here are ways to turn hyphenation on or off:

To turn hyphenation on or off for the entire document, click Inspector in the toolbar, click the Document button, and then select or deselect Hyphenate (in the Document pane).
To turn off hyphenation for a particular paragraph, select the paragraph, click Inspector in the toolbar, click the Text button, click More, and then select “Remove hyphenation for paragraph.”
To turn hyphenation on or off for a word, click the word while holding down the Control key, and then choose Never Hyphenate or Allow Hyphenation from the shortcut menu.Turning hyphenation on or off for a word will affect every instance of that word in your document.

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Answer 2

Linzj Author

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Jan 5, 2015 8:30 AM in response to Kilgore-Trout

Pages decides when it's going to hyphenate words at the end of a line. It's a horrible feature!

THe document I'm working on was originally a Word document. There was no hyphenation at the end of lines because I turned off that feature, auto-hyphenation, in Word. I used to be able to turn it off in older versions of Pages for iPad, but don't see how in the current version. I don't know how to turn it off for existing documents. And I can't see how to turn it off for templates either. Thanks.

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Answer 3

Jan 5, 2015 9:03 AM in response to Linzj

In Pages for iOS there is not setting for that. Nor is it present in any of the Pages Templates I work with. My guess is that is was brought over in the Word document as a function of the Word template styles.

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Linzj Author

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Jan 10, 2015 4:05 PM in response to Camping Doc

I e-mailed Apple about the problem, for whatever that's worth. I could set older versions of Pages for iPad so there was no hyphenation, and I don't understand why they eliminated that feature with this version. I tried to manually remove the end-of-line hyphens, and it won't even let me do that. Eventually, I'll have to convert everything back to Word to try to clean up the mess. You're right. We just have to wait and hope Apple fixes the problem.

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Answer 5

May 21, 2015 5:27 PM in response to Kilgore-Trout

How utterly depressing. I have been changing all my docs, old & new, from Word to Pages. If this auto-hypenation really can't be disabled, I'll have to seriously consider making a U-turn. At times like this, when Apple fails me, I can feel Steve Jobs' embarrasment from the grave...or maybe not since he was cremated!

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Answer 6

Jan 10, 2015 3:46 PM in response to Linzj

I have the same problem. In my case, the document is one I created from start using the Blank template in Pages on my Mac. The Mac version of this document doesn't insist on hyphenating word at the darnedest places, but the iOS (8.1) version does. What I am hearing from this tread is that this is a feature we will have to wait on Apple for.

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May 22, 2015 5:10 AM in response to geegeepee

geegeepee wrote:

I can feel Steve Jobs' embarrasment from the grave...or maybe not since he was cremated!

Just a friendly suggestion, but since you obviously did not know Steve Job personally, such comments make you appear rather foolish.

Turn off auto-hyphenate in Word and resave the documents before importing.

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Answer 8

May 22, 2015 3:06 PM in response to Kilgore-Trout

I didn't mean to offend. I am a big fan of Steve Jobs, warts & all, and I know it drove him nuts when any little feature of his products (including software) failed to delight the user. I always imagine him going balistic every time Siri botches my simplest requests. The problem with your solution if I understand it is that you're addressing the conversion from Word to Pages. I want to live a Word-free life; I want Pages to let me disable auto-select whether or not the doc came from Word.

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