# Preventing Hyphenation of Specific Words

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Preventing Hyphenation of Specific Words
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If your text is automatically hyphenated and certain hyphenated words look ugly, or if you want specific words never to be hyphenated you can switch off hyphenation for those words:
- Choose %PRODUCTNAME - Preferences Tools - Options - Language Settings - Writing Aids
- Select a dictionary in the User-defined dictionary list, and then click Edit.
  If the list is empty, click New to create a dictionary.
- In the Word box, type the word you want to exclude from hyphenation, followed by an equal sign (=), for example, "pretentious=".
- Click New, and then click Close.
To quickly exclude a word from hyphenation, select the word, choose Format - Character, click the Font tab, and select "None" in the Language box.
Some words contain special characters that %PRODUCTNAME treats as a hyphen. If you do not want such words to be hyphenated, you can insert a special code that prevents hyphenation at the position where the special code is inserted. Proceed as follows:
- Enable the special features of complex text layout (CTL) languages: Choose %PRODUCTNAME - Preferences Tools - Options - Language Settings - Languages and check Enabled for complex text layout (CTL). Click OK.
- Position the cursor at the place where no hyphenation should occur.
- Choose Insert - Formatting Mark - No-width no break.
  Once the special character is inserted, you might disable CTL again. Support of CTL was only necessary to insert the special character.
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