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"Hyphenate" not be the default paragraph option

By default, paragraph text is set to hyphenate words that don't fit into the text box. I suggest that the default is to have text not be hyphenated so you can click the box if you want it to be.

No one I know has ever wanted hyphenated words in text, but you have to uncheck the "Hyphenate" box from the Paragraph Palette, it's annoying to have to do that every time I make a new paragraph or paragraph style. (same problem in indesign)

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    how long does it take to explore. this was being explored nearly a year and a half ago... to date

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    yes this is an absolute pain in the butt. please can we change this to not being default

  • Janel commented  ·   ·  Report

    OMG Yes. I hate that I'm forever turning off hyphenation.

  • DS commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yeah, please fix this. Like SO many others have commented, can't you just reverse the functionality? (make it opt-in instead of opt-out)

  • G Joseph commented  ·   ·  Report

    Is this still in progress? I haven't been able to find how to change the default setting to unclick hyphenation.

  • Rick Wallace commented  ·   ·  Report

    It's not difficult, Admin has no interest in working on this since it's not web related. Doesn't have to be anything-aware, we should be able to TURN OFF HYPHENATION and it stays off forever. We should also be able to specify _____ font as default, change the default PDF setting, and be able to save files that ARE NOT 6X TIMES LARGER THAN THE CONTENT OF THE FILE.

  • Don commented  ·   ·  Report

    Might be too difficult, but what if the hyphenation were content-aware? If text was below a certain point size, (12 or 14) then it might get hyphenation turned on by default, but over that size (likely a heading or larger format text) then it would be unchecked.

  • Fucker commented  ·   ·  Report

    For this reason I'm out. Happy with Sketch and other more contemporary apps. Does anyone work at Adobe Still? Apps only get worse!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    I don't understand why this hasn't already been done to be honest. It should be a toggle setting at least, not something you have to mess with every single flipping time. it is so annoying and time wasting!

  • Tan Choon Hong commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hyphenation is good for justified text to prevent rivers of word spaces up and down the columns, but for aligned left copy it should not be the default as one uses align left to avoid having this problem. I second non-hyphenation as the default. One can turn on hyphenation to break lines for aesthetic reasons.

  • Jay Lender commented  ·   ·  Report

    That's good... but I'd be much more interested in your making sure that auto-hyphenation doesn't create garbage text in fields that *already* contain more than one hyphen in a row. Has that been fixed?

  • WaldoIsOK commented  ·   ·  Report

    Can you please make realistic, not true view? Thank you.

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