Turning off Ligatures in InDesign CS5!

Hi, I am trying to find out if there's any way to turn off ligatures document-wide. Right now my team has to click on every character style to turn them off. We have over 80 300+ page book documents, so doing this is a pain! The ligatures are a problem when we export to Flashpaper...pdfs work fine. Please help!

Hello
Gal
What if you make a new paragraph style similar to the previous ligatures off and apply to the all Document
huh
IMran

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