We've all done it: pressed shift+enter/return to stop a word from hyphenating. It's quick and easy, but it's sort of like sweeping dirt under the rug. You've solved one problem but created another. If you re-use that text either with different formatting, or in a different output a forced line break will almost always crop up in a very inopportune spot. Fortunately, there are plenty of better alternatives to stop a word from hyphenating, like these from Jean-Claude Tremblay:
1) Select the word and apply a No Break character attribute
2) Select the word and apply the No Language character attribute
3) Add a Discretionary Hyphen in front of the word (Type > Insert Special Character > Hyphens and Dashes > Discretionary Hyphen).
4) Add the word with a tilde (~) in front of it in the user dictionary
5) Use a paragraph GREP style to search the word and apply either method 1 or 2 as a character style.
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