Hyphenation Question

[pummelfee]

Why does Publisher optimize the hyphenation only from top to bottom? And not backwards?
To demonstrate, i made a little screencast. In the middle of the block there is an ugly gap. When i go a few lines upwards and insert a manual soft break between the two words „Freie” „Gesellschaften“ not only the hyphen goes away, but also the gap disappears.
As i mentioned in a older thread, i remember InDesign to make this task much better long time ago. 
But maybe i did not set things up properly and did not find the right instructions yet.
Any tipps are welcome! 

[walt.farrell]

Publisher Hyphenation does not have a function to optimize paragraphs, it deals with only lines. Only the Flow function deals with paragraph optimization.

[thomaso]

6 hours ago, pummelfee said:

When i go a few lines upwards and insert a manual soft break between the two words „Freie” „Gesellschaften“ not only the hyphen goes away, but also the gap disappears.

If you want to avoid manual line breaks you could try the various paragraph options for "Justification" respectively "Hypenation". Depending on the font and text a single change at one spot can influence the text flow and hyphenation of the entire paragraph. For instance (without a manual break):