Discretionary hyphens appear out of the blue?

Question

Does anyone know why discretionary hyphens have started appearing in my text although I've switched off the hyphenation thing in the paragraph style? I haven't inserted them manually so . . . hmm.

Answer 1

peraidd wrote:
Hello again. I tried your suggestion but text is still behaving as if hyphenations are on. I really want full control of where I break words and this is driving me daft! Many thanks for your patience and your help.
You aren't making sense, here.  First you say you don't want hyphenation, then you say you want to control where words break. If words are going to break with anything other than a discretionary line break, forced line break or paragraph break (in all of which cases the words break without a hyphen, possibly confusing the reader), then hypenation MUST be enabled.
Hypenation is normally controlled by the dictionary language assigned to the text. Assigning (No Language) will remove hypenation from your text without actually disabling it, and you can then insert your discretionary hyphens where you wish and ID will break those words with ahypen at that location if required. Another option would be to edit the dictionary for the language in which the text is composed and remove unwanted hyphenation points. Yet another would be to use No Break to keep words from breaking (this can be a very dangerous technique, so be cautious).