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187 Three ways to prevent a word from hyphenating

187 Three ways to prevent a word from hyphenating - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

187 Three ways to prevent a word from hyphenating

- A lot of designers, myself included, are very picky about hyphenation in our documents. We're looking right now at a section of a spread from InDesign Magazine. We're very careful about how many words are hyphenated in a paragraph here. The best way to control hyphenation, is of course, from the paragraph style. If we opened up the paragraph style for a list bullets, and edited it, and go down to the hyphenation panel. You can see that we only allow words at least five letters to be hyphenated, and we don't want more than three at a time. Let's say for whatever reason that there is still and escapee. There was still a word that's hyphenating in here that while it goes according to the rules that we set, we just don't want it to hyphenate. For example, this word right here. Destinations. What if I didn't want this word to hyphenate. Now, I have seen many times other InDesign users saw this problem by doing this. I'm pushing shift and the return key, and I am forcing a line break. I…

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