Microsoft Publisher 2010 - Disable Hyphenation in New Text Boxes

SUMMARY: Prevent Publisher 2010 from automatically hyphenating text inside new text boxes.

Tired of seeing automatic hyphenation in every text box you add to Microsoft Publisher 2010 documents? While hyphenation is useful in that you can fit more text inside a smaller amount of space, some document designers dislike this practice and would rather choose if and when hyphenation should occur depending on the document type and intended audience.

To prevent Publisher 2010 from auto-hyphenating words inside every new text box created, make the following tweak:

1. Select the "File" tab in the Ribbon.

2. The Microsoft Office Backstage View appears. Click the "Options" button.

(Or instead of steps 1 and 2, press Alt + F, then the letter T.)

3. The "Publisher Options" dialog box appears. Click "Advanced" in the left pane.

4. Underneath "Editing options", uncheck "Automatically hyphenate in new text boxes".

Preventing Publisher 2010 from forcing hyphenation to occur in all new text boxes

5. Click "OK" on the bottom-right of the dialog box to close it.

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Microsoft Publisher 2010 - Change an Image / Photo's Brightness and Contrast

SUMMARY: Tweak an image's brightness and / or contrast in Publisher 2010 without loading an external image editor.

While Microsoft Publisher 2010 does not include a full-featured image editor, you can make a few simple adjustments to images inside a publication without having to open an external editor.

If you need to tweak an image's brightness or contrast to better fit a publication, making these changes requires just a few clicks:

1. First, select the image you wish to modify.

2. Click the "Format (Picture Tools)" tab that appears in the Ribbon.

3. In the "Adjust" section, click the "Brightness" or "Contrast" button as needed.

4. From the pull-down menu, choose from 40% to -40% brighter / darker or more / less contrast. If needed, click "0% (Normal)" to reset the brightness or contrast.

Adjusting an image's contrast in Publisher 2010

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Microsoft Publisher 2010 - Toggle Viewing Hidden Characters Such as Paragraph Markers

SUMMARY: Toggle viewing paragraph and other formatting characters inside textboxes in Publisher 2010 documents.

Depending on your needs when editing publications in Microsoft Publisher 2010, it might prove useful to view paragraph marks and other formatting characters inside text boxes.

Possible uses include determining if extra spaces between characters is due to full justification or extra spaces accidentally pressed between words, and whether breaks between paragraphs are true breaks (with a paragraph symbol) or several soft returns (with arrows pointing to the left). You can also at-a-glance determine if indented lines are caused by manipulating the ruler or pressing the Tab key (with arrows pointing to the right), or where a story connected between multiple text boxes actually ends (with a circle containing four lines sticking from the corners). You can see some of these symbols in the below example.

To toggle the display of these characters:

* Click the "Home" tab in the Ribbon, then in the "Paragraph" section, click the "Special Characters" button at the top-right.

OR:

* Press CTRL + SHIFT + Y

Viewing special characters while editing a Publisher 2010 document

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