Disable hyphenation by default?

[alexh43626177]

Hi all.

I'd like indesign to NEVER hyphenate a word for me. It seems I'm having to uncheck the hyphenation box for every text box.

I've tried turning hyphenation off and closing / quitting. When I start a new file it's checked again.

Any ideas?

Many thanks

[david milgrim]

As soon as you close all docs, I no longer have access to the palettes. 

[littletinyfish]

You should still have access to the menu bar. Select Window > Type & Tables > Paragraph menu and this should pop the palletes back in. You should be able to make changes to the defaults without an open document from there.

[Eric23946179whay]

100% correct. Ive been trying to say the exact same thing! Once all documents are closed....we have no access even when using the menu bar - "Select Window > Type & Tables > Paragrah. 

[Creamer Training]

You can still use the Window menu to switch to your workspace. Then the panels will appear as usual.

One way to avoid editing the Basic Paragraph is to create a new paragraph style with no document open (I simply call mine Body). Leave the Basic Paragraph style alone and edit the Body style--then treat it as the Basic Para. replacement. Note that when you make or change settings with no document open, it affects all new documents--not existing ones.

Also, consider restricting the hyphenation settings rather than turning them off completely. For example:

[Cheryl Neri]

I heartily disagee with Manan. If you can turn something off, you can always turn it back on. Too bad I've tried to disable it as well to no avail. It's annoying. It slows me down. I have been in the biz successfully for nearly 40 years and have never utilized hyphenation. I sure wish Adobe would make it so we could turn it off permanently.

[Eric23946179whay]

Any updates on this? Please do not respond with a paragraph of irrelevant information like the last "correct answer" and please do not respond with "close all your documents" then uncheck the hyphen box because the hyphen box is inaccessible when in fact we close all the documents. 

[jmlevy]

[…] the hyphen box is inaccessible when in fact we close all the documents.

This is absolutely untrue…

[Eric23946179whay]

Absolutely is true sir. Stop the arguments please. 

Check out my screenshots sir....posted two of them where it shows the screenshot where the options are greyed out after closing all documents. It is a fact that will all documents closed.......my boxes are greyed out and unaccessible.

Show me where it works please good sir! I could certainly use your help. Provide screenshots so we can actually follow your progress in this area!

[Eric23946179whay]

Just to make it easier for you.....il post it again in your thread!

As you can see......all documents are closed....and all options get greyed out! Thank you!

[Eric23946179whay]

Just to be clear.....we are not talking about InDesign. We are talking about Adobe Illustrator. 

[rob day]

Here are the compiled hyphenation off scripts for both ID and AI:

https://shared-assets.adobe.com/link/48e76755-5be4-4d07-752e-ed90bcc8e951

To install in Illustrator:

Applications⁩ ▸ ⁨Adobe Illustrator 20XX ▸ ⁨Presets⁩ ▸ ⁨en_US⁩ ▸ ⁨Scripts⁩

InDesign:

Applications⁩ ▸ ⁨Adobe InDesign 20XX⁩ ▸ ⁨Scripts⁩ ▸ ⁨Scripts Panel⁩

[rob day]

I think it’s worth clarifying that in both InDesign and Illustrator, hyphenation is a paragraph property—it can’t be set as an application or document property. You can turn it off in a Paragraph Style definition, but that would not affect an overridden paragraph or a paragraph with no style applied.

Document hyphenation is scriptable—this InDesign script would turn off hyphenation for all of the active document’s text and styles. The same could be done for Illustrator:

//turn off hyphenation in active InDesign document
var d = app.activeDocument;
var ps = d.allParagraphStyles;
var s = d.stories;
var t;
    
for (var i = 1; i < ps.length; i++){
    ps[i].hyphenation = false;
};   

for (var k = 0; k < s.length; k++){
    s[k].hyphenation = false;
    if (s[k].tables.length > 0) {
        t = s[k].tables;
        for (var l = 0; l < t.length; l++){
            t[l].cells.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().hyphenation = false;
        };   
    } 
}; 

This should work for Illustrator:

//turn off hyphenation in active Illustrator document
var d = app.activeDocument;
var ps = d.paragraphStyles;
var s = d.stories;
var sp;

for (var i = 1; i < ps.length; i++){
    ps[i].paragraphAttributes.hyphenation = false;
};   

for (var j = 0; j < s.length; j++){
    sp = s[j].paragraphs;
    for (var k = 0; k < sp.length; k++){
        sp[k].paragraphAttributes.hyphenation = false;
    };   
};