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         <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Preventing Hyphenation of Specific Words</title>
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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id5640125" role="paragraph">If your text is <link href="text/swriter/guide/using_hyphen.xhp">automatically hyphenated</link> and certain hyphenated words look ugly, or if you want specific words never to be hyphenated you can switch off hyphenation for those words:</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153634" role="listitem">Choose <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC"><emph>%PRODUCTNAME - Preferences</emph></caseinline><defaultinline><emph>Tools - Options</emph></defaultinline></switchinline><emph> - Language Settings - Writing Aids</emph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153658" role="listitem">Select a dictionary in the <emph>User-defined dictionary </emph>list, and then click <emph>Edit</emph>.</paragraph>
            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147125" role="listitem">If the list is empty, click <emph>New</emph> to create a dictionary.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150218" role="listitem">In the<emph> Word</emph> box, type the word you want to exclude from hyphenation, followed by an equal sign (=), for example, "pretentious=".</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150247" role="listitem">Click <emph>New</emph>, and then click <emph>Close</emph>.</paragraph>
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      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147036" role="tip">To quickly exclude a word from hyphenation, select the word, choose <emph>Format - Character</emph>, click the <emph>Font </emph>tab, and select "None" in the <emph>Language </emph>box.</paragraph>
      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0302200910262761" role="paragraph">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:</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0302200910262850" role="paragraph">Enable the special features of complex text layout (CTL) languages: Choose <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC"><item type="menuitem">%PRODUCTNAME - Preferences</item></caseinline><defaultinline><item type="menuitem">Tools - Options</item></defaultinline></switchinline><item type="menuitem"> - Language Settings - Languages</item> and check <emph>Enabled for complex text layout (CTL)</emph>. Click OK.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0302200910262837" role="paragraph">Position the cursor at the place where no hyphenation should occur.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0302200910262867" role="paragraph">Choose <item type="menuitem">Insert - Formatting Mark - No-width no break</item>.</paragraph>
            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0302200910572128" role="paragraph">Once the special character is inserted, you might disable CTL again. Support of CTL was only necessary to insert the special character.</paragraph>
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