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• • May 18, 2020 at 9:40 am #1251006
    Carole E. Caruso

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    I am using InDesign 2020 on Windows 10. How do I get ride of the Ligature option for all time? Every time I uncheck it, it is back again the next time I bring up a file, new or old. Enough is enough. Help!

    Thanks.

    Carole

  • May 18, 2020 at 11:17 am #1251015
    Sol Kawage

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    Close all your documents. Change the settings you want. These will become your defaults. If you change settings while a document is open, they will only change for that one.

  • May 19, 2020 at 9:00 am #1251525
    Carole E. Caruso

    Member

    Thank you for the reply but I am at a complete loss here. For some years I have been writing a book, working my way up from CS6 to the latest version of InDesign 2020. Early on I marked my InDesign manual to never use LIGATURES, not ever.

    I have Masters pages that I have been using for years. LIGATURE is NOT checked in these Master pages.

    Since upgrading to InDesign 2020, I find LIGATURE checked in some of the files I have been working on. I don’t know how many files are involved here because I frankly am tired of dealing with problems. When I find a file with LIGATURE checked, I uncheck it and get rid of the LIGATURES in that file. The next time I open this file, there is LIGATURE checked again. What is this telling me – that I have no control, I can’t change my mind about this particular file? I really don’t like LIGATURES.

    Please! How do I get LIGATURE to behave? What do I have to do to remove it from InDesign? Or at least stayed unchecked. What am I doing wrong?

    Thanks.

    Carole

  • May 19, 2020 at 1:20 pm #1251535
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Can you tell us where you are turning ligatures off? What setting are you changing?

    In general, ligatures is a setting inside paragraph styles.

  • May 20, 2020 at 10:55 am #1251615
    Carole E. Caruso

    Member

    I don’t know how to answer you. I have tried everything I can think of, have poked around in all the corners, and am left having trouble even trying to explain what is going on.

    My Master pages do not have LIGATURES checked. Until yesterday I did not know I could go to the Character panel and check it because I do not want them. Now I know there are two places you can check it – the Character panel and also click on the very small three horizontal lines in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Further, whether or not LIGATURES is checked depends on where you have the cursor. Never, ever, did I choose it in any of these places.

    I understand that I have to go back and correct where it already changed the text.

    My question is how did this happen and, if at all possible, how do I get rid of LIGATURES forever so this does not happen again.

    Thank you.

    Carole

  • May 20, 2020 at 12:57 pm #1251625
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Wow, you really don’t like ligatures! :-)

    Unfortunately, InDesign is more complicated than that, actually. There are many places that you could potentially get ligatures. I would encourage you to look into how paragraph and character styles work in InDesign. Maybe watch my course on LinkedIn Learning called “InDesign Essential Training”

  • May 20, 2020 at 2:56 pm #1251685
    Carole E. Caruso

    Member

    OK, David. I already did that course on Lynda.com, but I will do it again and pay more attention. And, by the way, I hope I can say this here, I did every one of your InDesign courses on the Lynda site. I never would have come this far without them. So I finally can say “thank you” to you and all the others on the Lynda site.

    Thank you.

    Carole

  • May 20, 2020 at 5:07 pm #1251715
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Oh that’s super nice of you to say. I’m really glad they’ve been helpful for you.

    However… You’re right that I don’t get into things like ligatures in my courses there. That’s kind of advanced. If you’re not normally using paragraph styles, then you should at least edit the Basic Paragraph style (in the paragraph styles panel) and turn off ligatures in there. And then save that document and close it. And now edit the basic paragraph style while no docs are open and turn off the ligatures again.

    Now it should be off for all documents you make in the future. (Unless InDesign’s preferences get wiped out, at which point it might creep back into the Basic Para style)

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