Importing/Placing a Word document into InDesign without hyphenation

Question

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.

Attroll · Accepted Answer

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 · Answer

@Attroll What is set in the applied ParaStyles?

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