Stopping Indesign from separating certain words

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July 8, 2024
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Hi everyone!

I'm currently working on a piece for a client with a two word brand name. How can I stop Indesign from separating the brand name, by breaking the lines in my text between the two words? Is there a way to only ever display the words together in one line?

Thank you 🙂

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Frans v.d. Geest

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By applying a [no break] character style. Through GREP Paragraph styles you can even do this automatically.

James Gifford—NitroPress

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GREP styles are the elegant solution, but as they work style by style they'd have to be enabled in all or most styles in a document, which could lead to performance problems. Maybe select use of a GREP style, plus a dedication to always typing the brand name with a hard space (Ctrl-Alt-X), and occasional cleanup/fix by running a Find/Change to insert the hard space — all in all, a slightly clunky but more reliable method.

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

Use a GREP style to apply a no-break character style to the words, or the occasional Find/Change to put a nonbreaking space between the words.