Weird word break problem

jane-e  wrote Hi tjerk, Barb is asking if the hyphens were entered manually. It certainly looks like they are. Missing from your video is the original typing of those two words, so we can’t verify.

Even worse, it looks like there is a manually typed hyphen followed by a space. This has nothing to do with InDesign's hyphenation. Remove all of those manually typed hyphens and just let InDesign do its job.

You are most certainly not fully at the mercy of the automatic hyphenation algorithm. If InDesign adds a hyphen to a word you don't want to break, or it's in an unfavourable place, you can select the entire word and select "No Break" or insert a soft hyphen before its first character (Ctrl+Shift+hyphen) to avoid breaking, or insert a soft hyphen anywhere else at a position of your preference. If you find InDesign has a constant problem with a certain word that does not abide to common hyphenation rules, you can easily add it to the dictionary, with or without any breaking points.

See the Online Help for all of this (and some more) in Dutch: Tekstcompositie uitvoeren en woordafbreking toepassen in Adobe InDesign

Hi Barbbinder,

I did not enter the hyphens manually, that's the thing. I do have to mention that I tried to add page numbers to my book and used the A-Masters to add them. I applied this to all pages, but somehow this didn't work. I did not add any hyphens manually. It seems that the hyphens that were made in the text were made permanent by some action i did. If I write a new word that breaks and try the same I did in the video, it does fix. The hyphenation is on. If I turn it off, all my text goes blank. Any ideas on how these particular breaks got permanent?