View.ShowHyphens Property (Word)
True if optional hyphens are displayed. An optional hyphen indicates where to break a word when it falls at the end of a line. Read/write Boolean.
Syntax
expression .ShowHyphens
expression An expression that returns a View object.
Example
This example inserts an optional hyphen before the selection and then displays optional hyphens in the active window.
Selection.InsertBefore Chr(31)
ActiveDocument.ActiveWindow.View.ShowHyphens = True