Adobe Community: Can I prevent certain words from being hyphenated or split?

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1. Steve Werner,

Feb 12, 2013 6:37 AM in reply to kellyjaye1

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Select the word(s) you don't want to break. Apply the "No Break" attribute from the Control panel menu or the Character panel menu.

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2. kellyjaye1,

Feb 12, 2013 6:48 AM in reply to Steve Werner

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That helps but is there a way for it to do this throughout the entire document? Its a long newsletter with tons of text. Id really like to avoid searching for all instance of the word. Also with text revisions, text will shift so what didnt break before may break later

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3. F van der Geest,

Feb 12, 2013 6:59 AM in reply to kellyjaye1

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Choose Edit/Spelling/dictionary. Type the word in the first line, type an hyphen or tilde BEFORE the word, add the word to the dictionary.

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4. kellyjaye1,

Feb 12, 2013 7:25 AM in reply to F van der Geest

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I must be missing something. When I add the tilde before the word and add it to the dictionary, nothing happens to the document. When I do the same with a hyphen, it doesnt let me add that word because its a special character

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5. kellyjaye1,

Feb 12, 2013 7:53 AM in reply to kellyjaye1

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I did learn something though which seems to be what I need mostly. For the two word title, I can change the space between the words to a non breaking space with type/white space/non breaking space. I change it in one, copy the whole line, and do a search for that title throughout the document and replace with the new version all at once.

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6. John Mensinger,

Feb 12, 2013 9:58 AM in reply to kellyjaye1

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Make a new character style with No Break its only attribute. Open the Find/Change dialog and type the company name in the Find field. In the Change Format field, set your No Break character style. Set the search scope to Document and click Change All.

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7. iBabs2,

Feb 12, 2013 10:49 AM in reply to John Mensinger

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Hello,

Just to throw in another option, I sometimes do this through find and change.

I just type the word in the Find what field that I don't want to hyphenate, and then I go to the change format area on the bottom of the dialog box and click the no break check box in the basic character formats area, and then I change all in the document.

Hope that helps too..

babs

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8. F van der Geest,

Feb 12, 2013 11:01 AM in reply to iBabs2

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Too much steps, every document again. Like I said: add the word once to the dictionary of the required language with a tilde before the word, it really works, and it works fine!

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9. F van der Geest,

Feb 12, 2013 11:03 AM in reply to F van der Geest

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Oh, and do not forget to click on ADD and be sure your oaragraph that contains the word has rhe same language as the dictionary you added it to...

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10. iBabs2,

Feb 12, 2013 11:17 AM in reply to F van der Geest

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I agree with F can der Geest 100%. My option was just for a random situation that comes up. Quick and painless for a 1 shot deal.

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11. [Jongware],

Feb 12, 2013 1:09 PM in reply to kellyjaye1

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> .. There are other times like names of people that will get hyphenated and they dont want that either.

For that you can disable Hyphenate Capitalized words in your paragraph styles.

But don't use this if you have to typeset German text. In German, *all* proper nouns are capitalized -- and "Fahrvergnügen" isn't the longest one by far.

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