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keithm1972
Inspiring
June 29, 2022
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Font size not changing despite paragraph style.

  • June 29, 2022
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I'm trying to create a footer in my document (circled in red below) and changing the font size in the paragraph styles isn't working. Changing other paragraph styles does effect the footer.

 

What's going on?

 

(In case anyone notices, I put a text box with this footer on top of the blue rectangle beneath it. I also tried creating this footer in a single blue text box with white text, but the font size doesn't work there either.)

 

 

 

 

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Correct answer James Gifford—NitroPress

The pink highlighting seems to indicate you have a font problem. I'd suspect a character style or style import problem.

 

Put the text cursor in the actual text on the Parent page and see what font it thinks it is. If you get a style in brackets, you need to clear any styles applied and make sure the font face is valid.

 

(For example, you see this kind of error when you override a style from FirstFont Medium to SecondFont, which does not have a Medium face.)

 

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Scott Falkner
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 29, 2022

You might have a character style applied to the text in the footer. Formatting in character styles override paragraph styles.

keithm1972
Inspiring
June 30, 2022

That was exactly the case, thanks. 

James Gifford—NitroPress
Legend
June 29, 2022

The pink highlighting seems to indicate you have a font problem. I'd suspect a character style or style import problem.

 

Put the text cursor in the actual text on the Parent page and see what font it thinks it is. If you get a style in brackets, you need to clear any styles applied and make sure the font face is valid.

 

(For example, you see this kind of error when you override a style from FirstFont Medium to SecondFont, which does not have a Medium face.)

 

keithm1972
Inspiring
June 29, 2022

That's it! I accidentally set a font size on a bold character style that was freezing the font size of the paragraph style. 

 

Thanks.