: Making InDesign break all words but not hyphenate them I'm looking for a way to make InDesign break words regardless of good design practices and not hyphenate them. For instance: The quick

@Radia289

Insert a discretionary line break in the position where InDesign breaks the word. A Discretionary Line Break adds a preferred position to break a word but does not display the usual hyphen - very useful to indicate preferred breaks in long URLs, for example (after all slashes).

From your example I understand you don't necessarily want to have breaks in 'regular' positions. Even with extremely relaxed Hyphenation settings, the word fox will never be broken as "f-ox". To achieve this effect, I suggest inserting a discretionary line break between every two word characters. That can easiest be done with GREP: search for w(?=w) and replace with [CO]~k (where ~k is the code for the break).

This will add a break between d and o but not between g and .. If you need that as well, use S(?=S).

Possibly this is too much for InDesign to handle when done on your "many pages". If you find your computer becoming unresponsive, try an alternative: insert a regular space between the words and set the Preferred Space Width in the Justification dialog to a value as small as possible. For this to work, you first need to change the 'regular' spaces to something else first, because otherwise these would disappear as well - perhaps an en-space does the trick.

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