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The list remains with the document so that if you share the document the hyphenation
preferences remain active. You can also import your own list to a document, which will
add your own preferences to the list.

Inserting hyphens manually
If you type "Ctrl + -" (minus key) it inserts a soft hyphen which is a hyphen that only
appears if the word can wrap at the end of a line. It's called a 'soft' hyphen because when
the word appears in the middle of a line the hyphen vanishes (unlike a normal dash or
minus character), so it intelligently hyphenates the words only if it needs to.

When editing the text a soft hyphen is treated as an invisible character (it takes no
space), but you can tell it's in the text by moving the cursor left/right over where the
invisible character is.

A hard hyphen can be inserted by typing "Ctrl + Shift + -" (minus key). A hard hyphen is
one that will not cause a wrap at all. This is useful in situations where you have dashes in
words that you do not want split at the end of lines.

Find & Replace

The Find & Replace function performs live search so that as you type the search query
the text is searched and highlighted in real-time.

To search for some text select the menu "EDIT" > "FIND/REPLACE..." or "Ctrl + Alt + F" and
the following dialog is displayed:

Enter the search term and it's shown highlighted in the text. You can choose to search
just the current text flow, or the whole document (all text flows on all pages).

The WHOLE WORD option will only search for whole words that match the search term.
E.G. searching for 'met' will not find 'metro'. The CASE SENSITIVE option will match only
the exact case. E.g., with this option on, searching for 'aBc' will not find 'abc'.