Apply override to styles

I think it is better to create a new style than to do manual overrides. If I create such a style, e. g.  a child from paragraph style "basic" I will name this style "basic.child-property". So I can see in the name its dependency and that it is obvious, that a change in the parent style will influence this style. 

Like @James Gifford—NitroPress  I've never known this 'trick' or ever used it, didn't realise you might be able to do that - I don't ever remember it being a way to access the menus.

The 3 lines are essentially a way to access the sub menu of the panel - and it's typically accessed through a Left Click. 

You're better off duplicating the style you are altering and then used the 'Based On' style - make your tweaks - and then apply that paragraph style. It's far more efficient for editing later on. 

I typically like to have no overrides in text - but often have small tweaks to push/pull text - rather than making too many paragraph styles that could get confusing.

There's always exceptions to rules.

I do wish though that if you did make tweaks to text that you could 'lock' those settings so when you clear overrides the little tweaks you make aren't overridden - and don't show up in the style highlighter. 

Kinda like a tolerance allowance for the styles.

Just curious, but what are your Hyphenation and also your Justification settings for the paragraph style named "Body text"?

@aartim99668366

You mean left-click? 

But as others pointed out - you are doing it in the wrong place - you need to use Paragraph and/or Character panels. 

Hi @aartim99668366 , To override a Paragraph Style all you have to do is edit a range of text in the paragraph and then when any part of that text is selected a + sign will show next to the style name. If you hover over the style in the Paragraph Style panel, the override changes will be listed:

I don't remember that every being a feature, but TBH I'd never have used or recommended it anyway.

I won't say there's never a place for overrides, but they really should be avoided except in the case of text-fitting tweaks for long documents.

All of those settings are available in the Control Bar at the top of your UI, unless you've disabled it, and of course in the various palettes, where you have more options and controls.

In general, I'd say what you're looking for, been using, is something of a bad habit better replaced by other choices. 🙂