Word.View.ShowHyphens.md

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View.ShowHyphens property (Word)	vbawd10.chm161808402	vbawd10.chm161808402	Word.View.ShowHyphens	2294ea01-1ddc-0d29-4fa4-a5285d6d7cfb	06/08/2017	medium

View.ShowHyphens property (Word)

True if optional hyphens are displayed. An optional hyphen indicates where to break a word when it falls at the end of a line. Read/write Boolean.

Syntax

expression. ShowHyphens

expression An expression that returns a 'View' object.

Example

This example inserts an optional hyphen before the selection and then displays optional hyphens in the active window.

Selection.InsertBefore Chr(31) 
ActiveDocument.ActiveWindow.View.ShowHyphens = True

See also

View Object

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