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050 Using “No Language” to suppress unwanted hyphenation, spell-checking, and smart quotes

050 Using “No Language” to suppress unwanted hyphenation, spell-checking, and smart quotes - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

050 Using “No Language” to suppress unwanted hyphenation, spell-checking, and smart quotes

I love that InDesign has sophisticated hyphenation algorithms built-in. I love that it can automatically convert dumb straight quotes to smart curly ones. I love all of those cool built-in text features except that sometimes I really wish I could just turn them off for a moment. For example, in this document I have a URL and it's hyphenating. I don't want a hyphen in there. Then somebody reading this might think that the hyphen is actually a part of the URL. That's a disaster. Got to get rid of that. Also down here, just for the sake of this demo, I've inserted some HTML code, and I need to put quote marks in here. But as soon as I type a quote mark, it changes to a curly quote. That's a disaster and it has to be a straight quote. Let me delete that. So I really wish I could get InDesign to just stop for a minute. Don't hyphenate, don't do the curly quotes, don't even spell-check. Can I do that? I can, and the trick is to set up a language that won't do any of those things. I'm going…

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