Powerpoint: Activate automatic hyphenation

You can make your text paragraphs more beautiful with the automatic hyphenation. In this article we show you how to activate the feature in PowerPoint.

Activate automatic hyphenation - is that available in PowerPoint?

Unfortunately, there is no automatic hyphenation function under any PowerPoint version.

• One of the reasons for this is that such a function makes less sense in PowerPoint: You don't actually need hyphenation for short key points on your presentation.
• If you still need hyphenation in the text fields, you do not have to separate the words individually. With a little trick it works anyway.
• Simply copy the text into a new Word document and hyphenate it there. Then copy the text back into the PowerPoint presentation.
• In the following practical tip, we will show you exactly how hyphenation works in Word.