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Disable hyphenation by default?

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
March 6, 2019
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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

auto hyphenation

Correct answer Thom Coverly

Yes, you can turn off hyphenation so that the box is unchecked for every new text box.
Screenshots at end…

1. If you haven't already, in Preferences > General, uncheck Show Home Screen When No Documents Are Open. (You can turn this back on later if you use its features.)
2. With no documents open, use CMD+OPT+T to open the Paragraph panel. (Alternatively, find it in Window > Type & Tables > Paragraph, OR type "paragraph" in the Help menu search field to jump to that menu item.)
3. Uncheck the Hyphenate option.
Hyphenation is now off by default for all new text boxes and will "stick" when you close InDesign and restart.
Instructions applicable for InDesign 2023 and 2024.

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Chryzs

New Participant

Just set hyphenation options to unreasonnable numbers...

I set to
Words longerThan: 25 letters
After first: 15 letters

before last: 15 letters

Then it stopped forever!

jmlevy

Community Expert

I wonder why you don't simply untick the hyphenation chekbox.

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Cheryl Neri

New Participant

Probably the same reason why I'm wondering why you didn't think I'd already tried that.

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Thom CoverlyCorrect answer

Inspiring

Yes, you can turn off hyphenation so that the box is unchecked for every new text box.
Screenshots at end…

1. If you haven't already, in Preferences > General, uncheck Show Home Screen When No Documents Are Open. (You can turn this back on later if you use its features.)
2. With no documents open, use CMD+OPT+T to open the Paragraph panel. (Alternatively, find it in Window > Type & Tables > Paragraph, OR type "paragraph" in the Help menu search field to jump to that menu item.)
3. Uncheck the Hyphenate option.
Hyphenation is now off by default for all new text boxes and will "stick" when you close InDesign and restart.
Instructions applicable for InDesign 2023 and 2024.

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Eric23946179whay

Participating Frequently

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

Community Expert

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

This is absolutely untrue…

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Eric23946179whay

Participating Frequently

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!

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Cheryl Neri

New Participant

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.

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david milgrim

Inspiring

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

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littletinyfish

Participating Frequently

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.

alexh43626177Author

New Participant

Many thanks everyone! Disabling the start menu and making the changes with no docs open has worked!

Michael Bullo

Community Expert

Excellent

Michael Bullo

Community Expert

Changing settings with no documents open makes that the new default for all new documents. So you want to turn off hyphenation with no documents open.

This is now slightly complicated by InDesign showing the Start screen by default which we need to turn off. Uncheck the following option…

Preferences > General > Show "Start" Workspace When No Documents Are Open.

Open the Paragraph Panel…

Window > Type & Tables > Paragraph

Turn off the Hyphenate option in this panel.

You should now have turned off hyphenation for any new document. Congratulations

gregmaletic

Inspiring

I turned off the Start screen and made sure no documents were open… but it didn't fix the problem for me. Hyphenation is still on by default in new documents.

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Manan Joshi

Community Expert

You will have to switch off the hyphenation in all your paragraph styles. For text with default paragraph style, you could switch off the hyphenation from the Paragraph panel, with all the documents closed, hence forth all the text that you add to the document should have hyphenation off by default.

-Manan