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# Text Flow

Specify hyphenation and pagination options.

To access this command...

Choose Format - Paragraph - Text Flow tab.

Choose View - Styles - open context menu New/Edit Style - Text Flow tab.

Choose Edit - Find & Replace - Format - Text Flow tab.

## Hyphenation

Specify the hyphenation options for text documents.

### Automatically

Automatically inserts hyphens where they are needed in a paragraph.

### Characters at line end

Enter the minimum number of characters to leave at the end of the line before a hyphen is inserted.

### Characters at line begin

Enter the minimum number of characters that must appear at the beginning of the line after the hyphen.

### Compound constituent characters at line end

Set 3 (or more) characters to improve the hyphenation in Danish, Dutch, German, Hungarian, Norwegian and Swedish by preferring the hyphenation between constituents of a compound word instead of breaking the second (third etc.) constituent right after its first 2 characters.

### Maximum consecutive hyphenated lines

Enter the maximum number of consecutive lines that can be hyphenated.

### Minimum word length in characters

Enter the minimum word length in characters that can be hyphenated.

### Hyphenation zone

To reduce hyphenation, enter the length of the hyphenation zone. Instead of the possible hyphenation, the line will break between words, if the remaining horizontal space does not exceed the hyphenation zone. Hyphenation zone results in enlarged spaces between words in justified text, and greater distance from paragraph margins in non-justified text.

### Hyphenate words in CAPS

Hyphenate words written entirely in capital letters, such as initialisms.

### Hyphenate last word

Hyphenate the last word of paragraphs. Disabling this feature prevents the creation of almost empty lines containing only half a word.

## Hyphenation across

Control hyphenation in the last line of a column, page or spread, and last full line of a paragraph, according to certain typographical rules to improve readability.

### Last full line of paragraph

Deselect this check box to prevent last full line of a paragraph from being hyphenated. The hyphenated word is moved to the next line if there is enough space for it. As a result, the last line of the paragraph becomes longer, reducing the blank space between paragraphs.

### Column

Deselect this check box to prevent words from being hyphenated across a column, linked frame or page. The hyphenated word is moved to the next column, frame or page.

### Page

Deselect this check box to prevent words from being hyphenated across a page. The hyphenated word is moved to the next page.

### Spread

Deselect this check box to prevent words from being hyphenated across a spread. (A spread is a set of two pages that are visible to the reader at the same time.) The hyphenated word is moved to the next spread.

### Paragraph end zone

To set a hyphenation zone for the last full line of paragraphs, enter its length. If set to 0, the hyphenation zone will be applied as paragraph end zone.

### Column end zone

To set a hyphenation zone for the last line of columns, enter its length. The column end zone improves the readability across column or linked text frame. If set to 0, the paragraph end zone will be applied as column end zone.

### Page end zone

To set a hyphenation zone for the last line of pages, enter its length. The page end zone improves the readability across page. If set to 0, the column end zone will be applied as page end zone.

### Spread end zone

To set a hyphenation zone for the last line of spreads, enter its length. The spread end zone improves the readability when turning a page. Selecting a value that is four times the font size will prevent hyphenating 7-8 letter words or shorter. It will also avoid breaking longer words at their first 4-5 letters or earlier. If set to 0, the page end zone will be applied as spread end zone.

### Move Line

Select this check box to move the entire hyphenated line to the next column, page or spread, instead of moving only its last hyphenated word. Only the last line is moved when there are consecutive hyphenated lines, i.e. this setting does not guarantee that hyphenation will be disabled at the end of columns or pages.

## Breaks

Specify the page or column break options.

### Insert

Mark this check box, and then select the break type that you want to use.

### Type

Select the break type that you want to insert.

### Position

Select where you want to insert the break.

### With Page Style

Mark this check box, and then select the page style that you want to use for the first page after the break.

### Page Style

Select the formatting style to use for the first page after the break.

### Page number

Enter the page number for the first page that follows the break. If you want to continue the current page numbering, leave the check box unchecked.

## Options

Specify the text flow options for paragraphs that appear before and after a page break.

### Do not split paragraph

Shifts the entire paragraph to the next page or column after a break is inserted.

### Keep with next paragraph

Keeps the current paragraph and the following paragraph together when a break or column break is inserted.

### Orphan control

Specifies the minimum number of lines in a paragraph before a page break. Mark this check box, and then enter a number in the Lines box. If the number of lines at the end of the page is less than the amount specified in the Lines box, the paragraph is shifted to the next page.

### Widow control

Specifies the minimum number of lines in a paragraph in the first page after the break. Mark this check box, and then enter a number in the Lines box. If the number of lines at the top of the page is less than the amount specified in the Lines box, the position of the break is adjusted.

### Reset

Resets changes made to the current tab to those applicable when this dialogue box was opened.

### Apply

Applies the modified or selected values without closing the dialogue box.

Related Topics

Orphans.