Word not hyphenating/breaking

[Elfis]

You can see in my test file that the continuous wwww will break to the next line at the end of the page, but it will not break for the picture. Also, changing hyphenation in the paragraph settings doesn’t seem to do anything.

How can I make this long word hyphenate or wrap to the next line?
Test.odt (88.0 KB)

[mikekaganski]

Writer uses hyphenation dictionary for hyphenation. The “word” that you used is not in dictionaries (I’m at lost about why). Just insert (soft) hyphens manually.

[shantanuo]

Are you using direct formatting? You need to use styles for this to work.

1. Right click on Default Paragraph style and choose New…
2. Type a name for e.g. “mystyle”
3. Outline & List tab - List style - Numbering 123
4. Click on “Edit style” button next to Numbering 123 and choose your preferred numbering pattern for e.g. 1. 2. 3.
5. Text flow tab and choose “Automatically” in Hyphenation section.
6. Select the text and double click on your style name (“mystyle” in this case) to apply.

Your text will be on the left side next to an image (with numbering and hyphenation enabled)

Please note: if you just type the character “w” multiple times it will still be on the new line because hyphenation has many options to control the behavior of flow. Please try with the actual text.

You did not mention the version. I am pasting the information from my Help - About Libreoffice

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