Sometimes I think the people behind punctuation rules are co-conspirators in a plot to drive us insane. Then I realize they could be coconspirators. That’s when I know their plot has succeeded. Of all ...

“Are the hyphens in this sentence correct?” a colleague asked me recently: “The couple moved in to the beautiful 175-luxury apartment-home community just two weeks after it opened.” Hyphens are often ...

Everyone knows what a hyphen is. It’s the graphic character to the right of the 0 on your keyboard that connects two words or indicates that a word is wrapped to the next line at the right margin.

There is a feature in Word that can make your text looks neat on your page, especially if you have challenges justifying your text. Hyphenation is needed when Word wants space, so it runs down to the ...

Microsoft Word includes many document creation tools and features various text formatting options, such as hyphenation. The Word standard for text wrap is no hyphenation -- each word that is too long ...

Russ in New Jersey had a question about hyphens: In "northwestern California landmark" should "northwestern California" be hyphenated? "I'm not sure if it's simply a matter of preference or if the ...

Don't read this column. Really. It's not like the other articles out there that impart knowledge. Instead, this one could leave you feeling like you know less than you did before you started reading.

Yet another tragedy has exposed our shameful, glaring inadequacies. Of course, there has never been a shortage of tragic incidences, but just when one hopes the last tragedy taught us a lesson, ...

Penn State's student style guide warns them that using too many hyphens could make them go mad, and wrestling with Microsoft Word about its default hyphen insertion could do much of the same. Word's ...

The topic of hyphens between words is a classic old time SEO question, something we've covered here many times. Recently, John Mueller of Google was asked about how Google treats words with ...