How to remove override in Styles

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Hi, I have two questions. [Question 1]In Screenshot 1, there is + (override) to dropcap in Paragraph Styles. When it is applied to a paragraph, + disappears in Screenshot 2. I think + is redundant in Screenshot 1. I have no idea about where it came from. Is there any way to make it disappear from dropcap in Paragraph Styles? [Question 2]In Screenshot 3, there is + (override) to period in Character Styles. When it is applied to a character, + disappears in Screenshot 4. I think + is redundant in Screenshot 3. I have no idea about where it came from. Is there any way to make it disappear from period in Character Styles?  Hosun Screenshot 1 Screenshot 2 Screenshot 3 Screenshot 4

Joel Cherney · Accepted Answer

You can always mouse over a paragraph style to figure out what its overrides are. Here's an example where there is absolutely nothing on the page - all I've done is start a new document and create a paragraph style - and there are already paragraph-level overrides:

There are a few reasons why this might happen. In my case, I'm using the Arabic-with-English-interface version of InDesign. So its Basic Paragraph Style has right-to-left paragraph direction. However, on the rare occasions that I'm starting a file myself and not working on someone else's file, I want to start with left-to-right behavior in English, so I set up my own document defaults for English and LTR paragraph. So I can resolve that override just by changing my paragraph direction:

and the exact same thing happens when I alt-click the Basic Paragraph style to remove the override:

James Gifford—NitroPress · Answer

These look like aspects of styles; the way to change them is locate where they are defined and change the definition. If you want, for example, some paragraphs to have a drop cap and others not to have one, you will need two different (Paragraph) styles.

The oddity with the period looks like a GREP style. Look in that Paragraph Style, under GREP styles and Nested Styles, and see if a rule is implemented to see out and change any part of the paragraph. Either deleting those automatic-override styles, or creating a companion style without them, is the way to eliminate or control them.

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