Occasionally I get documents in foreign languages like german and french.



When I open them I got always a warning popup:

"Word hyphenation feature is not available. Run the MS Office Setup program..."

Yes, I could buy and install the hyphenation feature for these languages as well. But I don't want it.

How can I PERMANENTLY and FOREVER and FOR ALL DOCS (even english) disable this popup resp feature (in Word2007)?

The docs itself should NOT be touched.

Peter

There are several options for disabling spellchecking (some of these are document-specific and others are installation-specific; see http://wordfaqs.mvps.org/MasterSpellCheck.htm).

However, if you want to suppress hyphenation, you must apply "Do not check spelling or grammar" formatting to the text in the document. You can apply this as a style or to the selected text via Review tab | Set Language.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

All the mentioned solution do ONLY work for one (=the current) document.
But I want to disable check spelling for ALL documents at once.

How can I achieve this?
Peter

You can instruct Word not to check spelling automatically, but, as far as I know, this doesn't affect the automatic hyphenation activated by the document creator. Adding "Don't check spelling or grammar" formatting to text will suppress the message. I do realize that this isn't what you were hoping for.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional