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‎Mar 11, 2019
03:10 PM
Ha. Yes. This is exactly an issue for me (and same for all the O'Names as well), but in my case it's simple enough for me to correct these ones by hand.
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‎Mar 11, 2019
03:07 PM
Thanks Stephen. This worked perfectly. I've since discovered I can use Automator to achieve the same result, but it's nice to be able to stay in Bridge. Although I still can't believe they don't include this as an option. Thanks again!
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‎Mar 07, 2019
08:41 PM
Hi there, Can anyone help me with a script to change filenames from: SURNAME Firstname.psd to Surname Firstname.psd Thanks for any help.
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‎Nov 27, 2018
04:01 PM
Hi Laubender. Thanks for all your investigating! I just tried to reproduce the problem so I could answer Jongware's question, but for some reason the problem is no longer happening! I'm CUTTING and pasting away, the same text into the same documents, but no hyphens are appearing, which is as much of a mystery as to why it started happening in the first place. So I'm relieved, but also kind of annoyed?
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‎Nov 27, 2018
03:41 PM
4 Upvotes
Hi Max. Not in my case, as the Word docs are definitely written from scratch.
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‎Nov 27, 2018
03:39 PM
1 Upvote
Thanks Eugene. I turned that setting on, but no hyphens appeared in my Word doc. They only appear after I cut-and-paste the text, and they appear whether or not Optional Hyphens is ticked.
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‎Nov 26, 2018
07:43 PM
3 Upvotes
Update for those following along. I've just discovered that the hyphens are only appearing when I CUT-and-paste into InDesign from Word. COPY-and-paste is fine. I tend to cut-and-paste as it helps me keep track of where I'm up to in the source document. I asked a friend to try and replicate my issue on his Mac (to see if the problem was with mine), and as I watched I noticed he copy-and-pasted. He's a copier, not a cutter. I went back and tried his way on mine, and problem solved. Still doesn't explain why it's happening in the first place, but at least there's a simple workaround.
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‎Nov 26, 2018
04:11 PM
Thanks Chad. That would be a good workaround, yes. I think that's what I'll have to do. Hyphenation is definitely turned off in Word, although I've just discovered something that may indicate the problem is with Word, not InDesign. See below. Hyphenation in Word set to 'None', but hyphen appearing in text nonetheless.
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‎Nov 26, 2018
02:46 PM
2 Upvotes
Thanks for your reply, Ian, but unfortunately placing the text isn't really practical in my example. If it was like a novel/essay, then sure, but in my case the InDesign docs are made up of many text frames for different profiles/stories, and I'm supplied one Word doc with text for a whole section. I'm no chance of getting each bit of text supplied as a separate Word doc, and importing all text then deleting what I don't need is not ideal.
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‎Nov 26, 2018
02:38 PM
1 Upvote
Some more examples for reference. InDesign top, Word below. Most words that end up hyphenated in InDesign do seem to be at either the start or end of a line in Word, but as you can see in the screenshot in the post above, not always.
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‎Nov 26, 2018
02:20 PM
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I've just started noticing random hyphens appearing in text I'm pasting from Word into InDesign. I'm pasting into a series of InDesign docs in a journal that get updated every year, and I've never had this happen before. I just pasted in a 900-word story, for example, and there are 12 hyphens inserted into seemingly random words with no pattern I can detect. Hyphenation is turned off in both Word and the InDesign paragraph style, so there should be no hyphens. They’re definitely not discretionary hyphens. I have Invisibles turned on in both Word and InDesign and everything looks completely regular. The words are all followed by a space (blue dot) and there are no special characters. The screenshot I've attached shows the text in InDesign with the source text in Word below. Anyone else seen this?
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