Indesign CS6 - Turning off ligatures PERMANENTLY

[petern20010557]

Hello,

I already said it in short in the subject box above.

How do I PERMANENTLY turn off the ligatures option in the character men? I have to switch it off every time after (e.g.) typing st. I can switch it off but a few minutes later (when typing st again) it is active again in the character menu. Strange enough (working in a large document of 100's of pages) not everywhere this st-persistence exists.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for your help!

[Test Screen Name]

Things shown in the character menu are not preferences/options to be turned on/off, any more than you can "turn off" Times-Roman font or 27 point type. They are character attributes. So you need to change the default character attributes, since starting new text will pick them up.

[Steve Werner]

You can set defaults when there is no document open. Here with no documents open, I've turned off ligatures:

Now, I create a new document. When I open the Character panel, ligatures are turned off.

However, if you have existing files which you've saved and Ligatures is turned on, it will still on when you open them.