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Chris Panny
Chris Panny
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April 7, 2025
Question

Grep To Clear Overrides

  • April 7, 2025
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I have a 100+ page InDesign file that has tons of overrides for the 20+ paragraph styles. How can I use Grep to clear these overrides? 

I tried doing the following but it's not working:

Find / Change > Grep

Find what and Change to blank

Find Format > Style Options: Character Style - Any; Paragraph Style set to specific style

Change Format > Style Options: Character Style - [None]; Paragraphy Style set to style specified in Find Format.

 

 

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Dave Creamer of IDEAS
Community Expert
Dave Creamer of IDEASCommunity Expert
Community Expert
April 7, 2025

Character styles are not considered "overrides". Can you select all, or large portions, of the text? If so, there is a clear overrides button at the bottom of the Paragraph Styles panel.

Also, there is a script that can do this:

https://www.id-extras.com/clear-overrides-throughout-document/

 

 

David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)
    Robert at ID-Tasker
    Robert at ID-Tasker
    Legend
    April 7, 2025

    The last one in the script - for clearing Tables - should rather be: 

     

    allStories.tables.everyItem().cells.everyItem().texts.everyItem().clearOverrides(myOverrideType);

     

    To clear texts in the overset cells. 

     

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