InDesign ignoring hyphenation setting

Question

Hello Everyone,
I included the user dictionary into my InDesign document. And I set the settings to break the hyphenation only after 3 letters, but InDesign is breaking the words even after 1 letter as per my user dictionary. Could you please advise whether InDesign will not consider my own settings for user dictionary terms?
Thanks,
Praveen

Answer 1

When you add new words you should do it
to the dictionary of the correct language
insert breaking points where hyphenation should be done.
E.g. if I want to insert a new German word, I have to select the correct German Dictionary, that is "Deutsch Rechtschreibrefor 2006" (German Reform 2006), then I enter the Word like "Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschafftskapitänsausbildungsinstitutsdirektorssekretärinsschr eibmaschine". Ok the word would be a little bit too long and would not work with automatic hyphenation. So I enter tildes (~~) as breaking points. 2 of them as average hyphenation, 1 on primary and 3 on places of possible but not prefered hyphenations. So it would look like this:
"Do~~~ nau~~ dampf~~~ schiff~~~ fahrts~~ ge~~~ sell~~~ schaffts~ka~~~pi~~~täns~aus~~~bil~~~dungs~~insti~~~tuts~di~~~rek~~~tors~sek~~~re~~~tä~~~r ins~schreib~~ma~~~schi~~~ne"