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jadecricket
jadecricket
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March 27, 2012
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Text breaks / hyphenations – no break?

  • March 27, 2012
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Hey, I am curious if there is a way that InDesign can format text boxes so there are no hyphenated words at all. I understand that i can manually select words and format "no break" in the text formatting options, but is there a way to do this for every word in the text box? I'm asking because I have a very large document and any changes to the size of text boxes, for instance, neccessitates me to go to every word that's breaking with a hyphen and choose "no break." It seems like there has got to be a less tedious way to do this…

Thanks so much,

Quin

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Correct answer Peter Spier

Sure, just turn off hyphenation.

Best to do it in your styles, but you can select a frame, then open the Paragraph panel and open the flyout menu to get to the hyphenation settings. As long as the frame isn't threaded to any others you can do it one step there.

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Peter Spier
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Peter SpierCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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March 27, 2012

Sure, just turn off hyphenation.

Best to do it in your styles, but you can select a frame, then open the Paragraph panel and open the flyout menu to get to the hyphenation settings. As long as the frame isn't threaded to any others you can do it one step there.

jadecricket
jadecricketAuthor
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March 27, 2012

Thanks so much for your answer Peter – exactly what I wanted. BTW, do you know if there is a way to create a paragraph style in which the first line is formatted a certain way and the second line formatted another way? I'm designing a seed catalog and I want the crop variety to be listed in Bold, Garamond 16 and the next line (which will give the latin species) to be Italic Garamond 16.

-Quin

Willi Adelberger
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Willi AdelbergerCommunity Expert
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March 28, 2012

(Manish,

Appreciate the followup but that didn't help.)

Peter,

I'm enclosing a screenshot that displays the invisible characters. However, I was a little bit confused about some of the other things you wrote. What I am trying to do is this: first line: Garamond 16 Bold; paragraph return (or what I confused for a "forced line break"), second line: Garamond 16 italic. Were you saying that I can only do such precise edits through separately applying styles for each line, or simply saying that character styles are the only way to go?

(Also, I understand what you meant about manually applying character styles So before I applied my "variety/species" style I cleared the text that using the "break link to style" command, and then attempted to apply my "variety/species" style. Still, no luck.)

-Quin


In your case I would not use nested style nor line styles at all. I would work with different paragraph styles:

1. Headline Style, next style defined is Subheadline Style, ends with normal return

2. Subheadline Style, next style defined is Block Style, ends with normal return

3. Block Style, next style defined is  Price Block 1, ends with normal return

4. Price Block 1, next style defined is  Price Block 2, ends with normal return

5. Price Block 2, next style defined is Headline Style, ends with normal return

Is there any reason to split up price information and main block into 2  seperate frames? If only the spacing is the reason and the inset and if it is always the same then put it into the same frame, it makes the work easier.

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