Thanks for the response Masood, really appreciate it, but my issue isn’t trying to stop compound words from breaking. It is that, from what I can tell, in this one particular case InDesign does not break the compound words and I don’t know why.

With no styles applied to the text, if you type “24,000-square-foot” into Indesign and it does not all fit on a single line it will only break between “square” and “foot”, and not between “24,000” and “square” which has been causing me spacing issues on the line above since the text is left justified.

I can put a soft return after the first hyphen to force the break but I was wondering if there was I way I could get InDesign to do this organically.