This one drove me crazy for a while…and the solution is even wilder. So hopefully, this will help someone.
If you are working on PowerPoint slides and you find that your words are somehow splitting onto new lines, you can follow the below steps to correct this.
- Close PowerPoint
- Navigate to Start –> Programs –> Microsoft Office –> Microsoft Office Tools –> Microsoft Office Language Settings
- Add Japanese (don’t ask why, just do it)
- Navigate to the slide master. Navigate to Line Spacing (or Line Breaks) in your menu (or ribbon)
- You will notice a tab for Asian Language support. Uncheck the second check-box (Allow Latin text to wrap in the middle of a word).
- You’re all set.
- Navigate to Start –> Programs –> Microsoft Office –> Microsoft Office Tools –> Microsoft Office Language Settings and remove Japanese if you’d like.
Good luck!
A couple years late in replying…but you know…COVID and everything. Glad it helped you, Lily!
Wow! I’m so glad this is still helping people…15 years later!? Happy PowerPoint-ing!
2022 and it still works! Had this problem in Word, fixed it in Format > Paragraph > Asian Typography. Thank you very much!
Hey, it’s 2020, and it still works, thank you!
So glad it helped you, Marshall! I have gone ahead and updated the post with your comment in case it will help people (since I really haven’t run into this lately, so I haven’t had to try it with recent versions of Office). Thank you for commenting.
Why these options are enables only when Japanese is added as a Language? May be Microsoft need to hire more developers from other regions. Total BS.
It’s now 11 years after this original post. And THIS. STILL. WORKS.
Some tips for people like me: You do have to select Japanese as your default language in the tools, so you can get the tab in the slide master. In the slide master (you will have reopen your slideshow), select all text boxes (Ctl-A) on each slide master -> Paragraph ->Asian typography -> Uncheck “allow Latin to break..” Check a few different master layouts to make sure you get them all.
Save and close, go back and set default back to English, and remove the Japanese if you want to. Now you’re set. BRILLIANT help here, Ashok! Thank you.
Hi there
am unable to see ‘Line Spacing’ under slide master. Someone please help. Using power point 2007.
Thanks
Thank God there are people in the world like Ashok! At first I couldn’t see the “Asian Typography” tab, even after I performed the previous steps properly. Then I exited my PowerPOint and reopened again, and this time the “Asia Typography” tab was there. So, I unchecked the Latin splitting headache problem … 😉
Hahahaa weird solution, but it works, thank you 🙂
Still works for Office 2013. Thanks a lot, great fix.
Thanks for this.
For MSWord 2010, still follow the first bit of this to install Japanese, then after restart
i) open your word document
ii) right-click & select “paragraph”
iii) on the Asian Typography tab uncheck the second check-box (Allow Latin text to wrap in the middle of a word)
Thank you very much for the ‘add Japanese tip’! I was going crazy trying to re-edit a document, line by line…
I am having a similar problem in word. Can anyone help me? Thanks!
And how to do this on a Mac? Powerpoint on a Mac has the same issue with some templates.
Thanks man! This was really useful!!
Wow. So weird. Thanks for the help! 🙂
the way u said..just dont ask why adding Japanese..just do it.. 😀 😛 ..nice job!! 🙂
this worked man!! 🙂 🙂
This worked for me to when transferring file from samsung tablet to PC and micro soft word 2010. So thanks very much.
There’s one more way I found out to get rid of the unwanted breakage of words (In MS Word).
1) Select the problematic sentence
2) Ctrl+C
3) move away
4) Select the sentence again
5) Right click
6) Click on the ‘Keep Text only’ icon under ‘Paste Options’
7) that’s it.
Hope this helps somebody.
Prashant, New Delhi
So glad this is still helping everyone after so many years! Have a happy holiday season!
– Ashok Aggarwal
HI, Thank you so much, you save me from getting angry with that fault, thanks so much
Hi, Polaris on my tablet also messed up formatting of a story I am writing in Word 2011 on my Mac, and this fixed it, thanks so much! 6 years on and this post is still helping people 🙂
I did have to do something slightly different, first enabled Japanese by searching for Microsoft Language and clicking the app that came up. Then I had to select the text that had gone funny, right click and select ‘paragraph’ then select the tab that said line breaks, and the option was there.
Thanks. Your post was very helpful.
… Please Note that this solution also works for MS Word 2010. After adding Asian language support, you will see an additional tab for Asian Typography in paragraph formatting. You need to uncheck the checkbox [Allow Latin text to wrap in the middle of a word].
Thank you. I had the same problem and this solution helped me.
Thanks for the help, it was really annoying me from last few days, and I was not able to figure out how to fix it.
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You saved 500+ page long dissertation!
Thanks a lot, its funny but works:))