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jay fresno
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September 18, 2008
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turn off hyphenation throughout a document

  • September 18, 2008
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Is there a checkbox that will turn OFF hyphenation throughout a whole document, or an easy way to disable hyphenation?
    Correct answer MT.Freelance
    CS/CS2

    For NEW documents:

    With no documents open, go to your paragraph palette/panel. From the palette menu, select Hyphenation. Deselect the option box.

    If you have any paragraph styles pre-defined, be sure to change the setting within them, too.

    This sets your default for all new documents.

    For EXISTING documents:

    You can change the hyphenation option for all new text frames by repeating the step above with a file open and nothing selected. This will not alter existing frames.

    Next, edit all your paragraph styles, to change the hyphenation option, if you use them. This will alter all paragraphs using the paragraph styles.

    Finally, select all text frames and repeat the steps above.

    Other:

    Find someone to script it for your (if it hasn't already been done).

    HTH

    -mt

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    _Dominic_Hurley_
    Participating Frequently
    September 22, 2008
    >Well, you CAN search and change justification if you want.

    Yes, but I assumed Sandee was referring to all the options under the Hyphenation and Justification tabs. The find/change has most of the other tabs you find under paragraph styles, but not all.
    RodneyA
    RodneyA
    Participating Frequently
    September 21, 2008
    > Why isn't there an option in Find/Change to turn off hyphenation? And along the same lines, what about justification?

    Well, you CAN search and change justification if you want. Leave the find and change boxes blank. Under "Find Format" choose Indents and Spacing, select the justification you want to find, and under "Change Format" select the justification you want to change it to.

    But using Paragraph Styles is a much better way to do this. If all of your running text is based on your Body style, just redefine the Body style, and you won't mess with your headings, tables, and figure legends, and anything that isn't running text. And, with style definitions, you can change hyphenation options globally.

    Rodney
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      _Dominic_Hurley_
      Participating Frequently
      September 21, 2008
      >Why isn't there an option in Find/Change to turn off hyphenation? And along the same lines, what about justification?

      Because I use styles, I don't have any real need for these in find/change. However, a feature that Corel Ventura has would be useful. In that app, you can select multiple styles and change properties for all of them at once. For example, I could select all paragraph styles and turn off hyphenation in them all at once.
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        jay fresnoAuthor
        Inspiring
        September 21, 2008
        Michael, Thanks for your thorough summary of the options. I understand that QuarkXPress has an option to globally turn off hyphenation, but don't know for sure as I'm not an XPress user. I was hoping that InDesign had something similar.
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        dgalligan32iq
        Participant
        January 29, 2015

        Yes, Quark does have an easy as pie way to turn off Hyphenation. Under the Edit menu, select H&Js (hyphenation and justifications) then double click on No Hyphenation. This will open a window that shows the current settings for No Hyphenation. If the Auto Hyphenation box is already Unchecked, just click OK or press Enter. If there's a check in the AH box, just uncheck and click OK.

        Now click the Save button and you're all set. Easy peasy. This is just one of the many many reasons I prefer Quark over ID. But that's me.

        Sandee Cohen
        Sandee Cohen
        Legend
        September 19, 2008
        Michael's given an excellent rundown of the options.

        But here's something that has blown me away.

        Why isn't there an option in Find/Change to turn off hyphenation? And along the same lines, what about justification?
          MT.Freelance
          MT.FreelanceCorrect answer
          Inspiring
          September 18, 2008
          CS/CS2

          For NEW documents:

          With no documents open, go to your paragraph palette/panel. From the palette menu, select Hyphenation. Deselect the option box.

          If you have any paragraph styles pre-defined, be sure to change the setting within them, too.

          This sets your default for all new documents.

          For EXISTING documents:

          You can change the hyphenation option for all new text frames by repeating the step above with a file open and nothing selected. This will not alter existing frames.

          Next, edit all your paragraph styles, to change the hyphenation option, if you use them. This will alter all paragraphs using the paragraph styles.

          Finally, select all text frames and repeat the steps above.

          Other:

          Find someone to script it for your (if it hasn't already been done).

          HTH

          -mt
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