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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

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@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

AttrollAuthor

Inspiring

[...] 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.

I hope I have my document/book set up right now. This is why I am asking. I want to make sure before I proceed any further.

I am only using all the styles mentioned below.
All these styles are based off the [Basic Paragraph].
All I did was add a new style by duplicating the [Basic Paragraph] and renaming it.
Then I did minor tweaks to each one of these styles.

Let me explain each one.
Basic Paragraph with Indent, is the same as [Basic Paragraph] but I only added a first line indent of 0.1852 inch to it.

Index levels were all based off the [Basic Paragraph].
I created these for indexing in my document for the Table of Contents. All I did was change the font size and use them for indexing throughout my document.
Index level 1
Index level 2
Index level 3
Index level 4

Level 1 = Content Print through Level 4 = Content Print, are also based off the [Basic Paragraph] also.
I created these for how it gets put/displayed into my Table of Contents.
Level 1 = Content Print
Level 2 = Content Print
Level 3 = Content Print
Level 4 = Content Print

These are all the paragraph styles that I am using so far.
I have been basing each of these off my [Basic Paragraph] when I have created them.
I understand what you mean by Root now. I did not use a root structure when I created these because I figured that I did not need to. I thought if they were all the same as the [Basic Paragraph] with only a font change, I would understand what they were. That is what I titled them like I did.

I have not created the paragraph style titled ‘Ricks basic paragraph’ yet.
Should I duplicate that the [Basic Paragraph] and name it ‘Ricks basic paragraph’
and use this as my default style for the document moving forward?

Am I doing things correctly now?

Thank you.

Rick

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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