In table cells, automatic hyphenation is not active by default, but it can be enabled by the user. When you do so, hyphenation will also be performed in table cells – but only in cells that contain multiple lines of text.
Accordingly, in order to get text in table cells hyphenated, two steps are required:
Step 1: Enabling hyphenation in cells
In order for hyphenations to be performed in cells at all, you must first enable hyphenation for cells (it is disabled by default). To enable it, proceed as follows:
| 1. | Choose the ribbon command File | group File management | Properties  . |
| 2. | Switch to the Options tab. |
| 3. | Enable the option Hyphenation. |
From now on, automatic hyphenation will also be performed in table cells.
Note: This option is a document option, so you can enable or disable it for each document individually.
Step 2: Enabling the Wrap Text option for cells
Hyphenations will be performed only in table cells that have the Wrap text option enabled. When you enable this option, the cell content will automatically be wrapped to multiple lines if it doesn't fit into a single line.
To enable the option Wrap text proceed as follows:
| 1. | Select the relevant cells. |
| 2. | Click on the group arrow in the bottom right corner of the ribbon tab Home | group Number. |
| Alternatively: Right-click to open the context menu and select the entry Cell. |
| 3. | Switch to the Alignment tab. |
| 4. | Enable the option Wrap text. |
Text entered in these cells will from now on be wrapped to multiple lines automatically, and automatic hyphenation will be performed where necessary.