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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

You can use Find/Replace to change the [Basic Paragraph] to your Body_default styles. This shouldn't remove overrides but work on a copy of your file.

However, why overrides? Those should be Character styles. You can find/change overrides to character styles too. As far as names goes, I name my char. styles how they are used--not what they look like (same concept as paragraph styles). Therefore, I avoid styles named "bold", "Italic" and "bolditalic".

I have learned a lot just from this conversation.

I have not delved a lot into characters styles yet.
Currently most of my overrides have been simple easy ones, like making a word in bold or underlining a word or sentence.
It seems so much easier to me to do a Ctrl+Shift+b while I am typing on the keyboard than for me to reach over to grab the mouse and clicking on a character style set up for bold.

It takes away from my concentration of typing. I am not a good typer and I look at the keyboard a lot while I am typing. I hate having to look up at the screen and look away from the keyboard at the screen in the middle of typing a sentence and grab the mouse then and find the character style that I created for bold. I would like to be able to not have to touch the mouse that much and look away from my keyboard while I am typing.
If that makes any sense.

Am I looking at this in the wrong perspective?

PS; Thank you very much for you patients with me.

Rick

Willi Adelberger

Adobe 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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