Reply To: Override custom hyphenation settings

If it’s just an occasional thing, there’s really no way to override it. Most likely the discretionary hyphen didn’t work because of the H&Js you have set up. You told it it’s allowed to break after the co-, but InDesign’s H&Js won’t allow it (possibly to avoid a loose line).

If it’s a break that you always prefer, you could set up a hyphenation except list which you could use for all documents. I have a list that I use frequently.

But for occasional stuff, you just have to break it by hand by either putting in a hard hphen and a soft return, tracking the paragraph, or using the no-break option that ThompsonText talked about.

I actually have a character style sheet that I call “no break” that I use a lot.

Are you using the Adobe paragraph composer or single-line composer? I’m guessing the former.