Annoying hyphenation problem in Word

Factual Questions
1

In Word I often want to insert a soft hyphen (using (ctl -}) so that the line lengths will look better. Annoyingly Word will then try to auto-correct the spelling. For example, if I insert a soft hyphen here percen{-}tage, Word will do so and break the line with a visible hyphen meanwhile auto-correcting “percen-” to “percent-” and leaving “tage” alone on the next line.

I don’t see any way to stop this except by turning off auto-correct which I don’t want to do. Has anyone had this problem or figured a solution to it. I’m using Office 2010, though this problem is older than that.

2

Well, you’re not actually supposed to put a hyphen before the ‘t’… there are rules, here.

3

Barring other examples, I concur with Ethilrist.

4

If MS Word autocorrects something, and you don’t want that correction, immediately type Ctrl-Z to cancel the correction.