Luke wrote:
I wondered if there was any way of stopping InDesign from hyphenating text between frames? As it stands, I usually finish a book by running through it and fixing these, but it would be great if it could be done automatically.
Yes, many publishers and art directors dislike hyphenating words from one page to the next. The good news is that it can be prevented easily and automatically, but you need to upgrade to CS3 for this feature. The trick is to turn off the Hyphenate Across Columns checkbox, which you can find by choosing Hyphenation from the Control panel menu, or in the Hyphenation pane of the Edit Paragraph Styles dialog box:
Of course, handling this inside the paragraph style is much more “automatic” and convenient.
Personally, I wish that there were two options — hyphenate across column and hyphenate across page — because I don’t mind words breaking from one column to the next on the same page, but I don’t want them breaking across a page. But the feature in CS3 will stop both from occurring.
This article was last modified on December 18, 2021
This article was first published on March 14, 2008
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