turn off hyphenation throughout a document

Turning off Hyphenation by default. Can it be done?

For New Documents, Yes! For existing documents, No! That would have to be done manually by the user each existing document one at a time.

This is for Adobe CC 2018 but may work for older versions:

Make sure no documents are opened. Better close indesign and re-open it just to make sure.

1) In top menu click on TYPE>PARAGRAPH

2) Top right corner of Paragraph menu is a flyout menu. Click that!

3) Choose HYPHENATION

4) De-activate it by unchecking the "tick" box.

5) Press OK to make sure settings take effect.

Again NEW documents will now auto hyphenate by default. Older documents will have to be changed manually.

-Cheers!

BTW -CorelDraw Graphics Suite has this setup correctly by default!

Turn off hyphenation from all paragraph style.

var doc = app.activeDocument;
var pStyle = doc.allParagraphStyles;
for (i=1; i<pStyle.length; i++){
    pStyle.hyphenation = false;
    };
doc.stories.everyItem().texts[0].hyphenation = false;

Sumit

i haven't tried this but i wonder if you select multiple text boxes, if you could turn hyphenation off on all of them at once?

Hello Can you Explain what I would need to do to eliminate hyphenation throughout an indesign document? We convert print to Epub format and even if we select "Remove forced line breaks" we still must manually verify the document does not have unnecessary hyphens. Is it possible to select all the paragraph styles at once and remove hyphenation? Or must it really be done one by one? You mention using a script to do this? Where might such a script be found and second how to run it in Indesign CC 2014? Thank You.

None of the heavy lifting is really necessary to change the Hyphenation.

Just go to the paragraph palette that MT.Freelance has suggested and change the minimum number of characters it takes to activate hyphenation. For instance, if your paragraph style says you need at least 5 characters in a word before InDesign tries to  hyphenate, just change that number to 10. What you're saying is don't even try to break up the word unless it has 10 letters. I could change it to 30 and that would eliminate all hyphenation ... unless you're a doctor using medical terms.

Yes, I don't understand why Adobe had to make InDesign more "quarky" because a lot of us appreciated InDesign because it WASN'T quark-like.  I hate frames...and hyphenation should be found in the paragraph settings like it used to be!!

Choose to show Paragraph Styles (F11), or choose Paragraph Styles under the "Type" menu.  Make sure your cursor is in the paragraph where you want to turn the hyphenation off. 

Look at the "Basic Paragraph" item in the Styles box (or whatever style you're using).  If it has a plus sign next to it, you have modified this style.  Right click on the name, and choose Redefine Style.  If there is no plus sign, go to the next step.

Choose Edit [style name].  In the Paragraph Style Options, choose Hyphenation from the options in the left panel.  Uncheck the word Hyphenate.

Close the dialog box, and all hyphenation will be turned off.