Is there a way to avoid wrapping in "special" words?

[Doc Maik]

Hello!

By "special" I mean two situations like these I came across today:

1. At the end of a text line in block set text there is an e-mail address with a two-letter domain, such as .de. I changed it to .com and now it wraps after the dot. The mail address is considered as one word, but not by Indesign. This is also no hyphenation topic, so I couldn't find anything to make the word not wrap, except for tricks like lowering the character width or the tracking.

2. There is a single directory name like TEMP at the beginning of a text. In order to make it clearer that this is a directory, I changed it to \TEMP. Indesign would wrap the backslash into the previous line. This is also not hyphenation.

How to avoid the wrapping here? Is there a simple way?

[jmlevy · Accepted solution]

Select the text (either the email address or \TEMP) and apply “No Break” on it. And better, create a character style with this only attribute.

[Doc Maik]

Ouch! I never really noticed the quick actions menu. I had looked into the Type menu to find nothing like this. As far as I see it, there is also no button in the top button menu (both layers).

[jmlevy]

I never use the quick actions menu. You can find the “No break” command in the control panel option menu, at the very right end of the control panel.

[Doc Maik]

For me, this is the quick actions menu. 

The control panel options menu is the one above.

[jmlevy]

Absolutely. This is the one I clicked on.

You get the “quick actions” menu (but the actual name is “quick apply”) by clicking on the lightning symbol.