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Importing/Placing a Word document into InDesign without hyphenation

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February 3, 2025
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I understand how to turn off hyphenation in my InDesign document and I have it turned off everywhere that I know of, and hyphenation is no longer anywhere in used or placed in my document.
However, when I place (Ctrl+D) a word document into my InDesign file it places it in there with hyphenation on. This is very annoying.
Is there a way to make it so that when placing a word document into InDesign it will go into it with hyphenation turned off?

As of right now it is always placed with hyphenation on and I have to manually highlight at the text once I import it and turn off hyphenation.

Correct answer Attroll

Thank you both Willi and Robert.

I figured it out.

Willi, it was not the Word document because I had hyphenation turned off.

Robert, I have the same paragraph styles in my Word document that I have in my InDesign document and they both have hyphenation turned off, so I thought. See below.

How I fixed it.

I noticed that two paragraph styles that were named the same thing.

One was the [Basic Paragraph] style that comes in every document and the other one I had was titled basic paragraph without the brackets. I don’t know how the one without the brackets ever got installed in my document.

The style without the brackets had hyphenation turned on. It appears that this was the one being used as the default when importing/placing the Word document.

I deleted the one without the brackets and replaced it with the one in brackets.

After I did that, everything is working correctly now.

Thank you both for a little insight and helping me.

Rick

Robert at ID-Tasker

Brainiac

@Attroll

What is set in the applied ParaStyles?

AttrollAuthorCorrect answer

Inspiring

Thank you both Willi and Robert.

I figured it out.

Willi, it was not the Word document because I had hyphenation turned off.

Robert, I have the same paragraph styles in my Word document that I have in my InDesign document and they both have hyphenation turned off, so I thought. See below.

How I fixed it.

I noticed that two paragraph styles that were named the same thing.

One was the [Basic Paragraph] style that comes in every document and the other one I had was titled basic paragraph without the brackets. I don’t know how the one without the brackets ever got installed in my document.

The style without the brackets had hyphenation turned on. It appears that this was the one being used as the default when importing/placing the Word document.

I deleted the one without the brackets and replaced it with the one in brackets.

After I did that, everything is working correctly now.

Thank you both for a little insight and helping me.

Rick

Robert at ID-Tasker

Brainiac

Robert

I am not sure what you mean by using it as a root / top style. Let me make sure I understand what you are saying correctly.

You're saying that I should always leave the [Basic Paragraph] there and not touch. Then I should create a new one of my own my own and use that one as my root?

This is how my paragraph style list looks now.
[Basic Paragraph]
Basic Paragraph with Indent
Index level 1
Index level 2
Index level 3
Index level 4
Level 1 = Content Print
Level 2 = Content Print
Level 3 = Content Print
Level 4 = Content Print

If I understand you correctly in what you are saying. I should create one called ‘Ricks basic paragraph’ (just a sample name) and use that as my basic paragraph style, is that correct?
Looking like this below.
[Basic Paragraph]
Ricks basic paragraph
Basic Paragraph with Indent
Index level 1
Index level 2
Index level 3
Index level 4
Level 1 = Content Print
Level 2 = Content Print
Level 3 = Content Print
Level 4 = Content Print

I appreciate all the advice. I have been working on my first real historical book now for over a year and a half. I have made a lot of mistakes in InDesign, and I have learned a lot.
I wished I had known what I know now when I first started this book. If I had I would have set it up differently in the beginning. I hate having to go back through 400 pages and changed formats. I think I have it all set up right now, I hope.

Thank you.

Rick

[...] I hate having to go back through 400 pages and changed formats. I think I have it all set up right now, I hope.

By @Attroll

Please let us know what would you like to change - and we'll help you do it quicker.

Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

Turn off hyphenation in Word. Remove all manual hyphenation with find and replace in Word. That should always be done before importing any Word file into InDesign.

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