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May 20, 2026
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Can the character style only change the font without clearing the priority options?

I am working on a translation book and need to convert English to Chinese. The file format is Ai, and there were no paragraph or character styles created before.


For convenience now, I want to control them using character styles or paragraph styles.
For example, my character style only changed the font, without the font size or line spacing.
I originally thought it would be okay with just one click, but now I realize that the font size and spacing have changed. I have to readjust every text block again. The workload has actually increased.


Is there a way to apply character styles by only changing different fonts without affecting the original settings?

 

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    Monika Gause
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    Community Expert
    May 20, 2026

    The same font size can look completely differently in a different font.

    So you would have to include the size in the style.

     

    Talking about books: It would be better to use InDesign (although for this particular problem it won’t make a difference)

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    dublove
    dubloveAuthor
    Legend
    May 20, 2026

    This document has inconsistent fonts in some places.
    This is someone else's file, and they requested that it be ultimately an AI file.

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