Highlight style with mixed attributes

Question

I need to highlight text but I already have a character style applied as needed; strong.

It appears that ID will only allow one char style.

I am trying to avoid a Highlight and Highlight Strong scenerio.

I have blocks of text, some words bold, that need a highlight applied. I am using a heavy underline with negative offset for the highlight.

Search engines and YouTube offer the underline technique but not mixed attribute solution.

James Gifford—NitroPress · Answer

Only one character style can be applied to any single character. It's a (somewhat frustrating) basic element of InDesign is that you have to multiply your Character Styles by as many variations as you have — you can't apply both a Bold and an Italic; you have to create a specific BoldItalic style.

There may be some very slight exceptions to this but in general even GREP and Line Styles are either-or and won't combine.

Note that this does not exclude applying multiple spot formats — you can use the inbuilt formatting* to apply bold, italic and underline to one word, even on top of an applied style — but in the organized styles, it's one per character.

*Except that you should rightly shun this unmanaged, built-in formatting as stemming from a momentary insanity of the developers. Never use them, that is. This is not Word.

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