In my InDesign application settings I have hyphenation turned off for new documents as my default setting. When I copy one or more text boxes from a source document to a target document with hyphenation also turned off in the Paragraph panel, the pasted text boxes always have hyphenation turned on. This is true regardless of the number of text boxes copied/pasted and regardless of the combination of some, none, or all of them having hyphenation off when copied from the original document. I have to do this very often and with a large number of text boxes each time, and I do not want to have to manually turn off hyphenation for all these text boxes. In fact, I cannot do it manually, because a script is involved that does the copying/pasting/saving of the new document. I simply want to do away with hyphenation all together in settings so that InDesign does not add the hyphenation setting to pasted objects that didn't have hyphenation set when they were copied. I could conceivably alter the script to go through each pasted object, turning off hyphenation each time it encounters a text box, but if I can avoid this, I will. Not only do I wish to avoid figuring out how to code this; more importantly, depending on how many text boxes are pasted each time, looping through all the pasted objects (not all will be text boxes) would likely slow the script down many times over. Thanks in advance for any help.

**Source document: no hyphenation in any text box**
[![Source document: no hyphenation in any text box](https://i.stack.imgur.com/r8n7G.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/r8n7G.jpg)

**Target document: hyphenation turned off**
[![Target document: hyphenation turned off](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yV18R.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yV18R.jpg)

**Target document: All pasted text boxes have hyphenation turned on.**
[![Target document: All pasted text boxes have hyphenation turned on.](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QaT9Q.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QaT9Q.jpg)