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Paul22570366d9ho
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June 6, 2024
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Text highlighting not aligned with text

  • June 6, 2024
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Hi

 

I am a relatively new InDesign user

 

I have a problem with certain pieces of text in an InDesign document exhibiting weird highlighting as shown below

 

I find the built-in [Basic Paragraph] style exhibits this (in this document) and also the style shown above which is [No Paragraph Style] + Roboto + 8pt + Align: Centred

 

I have run the cleanup tool and done a fresh install of InDesign. I sent my document to Adobe and they said the issue is not due to file corruption

 

Any clues?

 

Thanks

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Correct answer Paul22570366d9ho

It's worse that that!

All my styles seem to have Baseline Shift to -5 in the text but not in the definition

If I change to -4 (say) I get a + next to the style. Same for 3, 2 and 1.  However when I set to 0 (on the control bar) the + sign disappears

So it's as if it thinks -5 and 0 baseline shift are both the same as the style definition

Aghhh?


OK, sorted

 

Somehow there were charact and paragraph styles applied

 

I removed the charact styles and then the pargraph style was ok

 

Thanks

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jmlevy
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jmlevyCommunity Expert
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June 6, 2024

Baseline shift is applied to the text:

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    Paul22570366d9hoAuthor
    Participant
    June 6, 2024

    Many thanks for this

     

    I thought it might be that but I checked and the font defininition has baseline shift set to 0

     

    However as you correctly suggest, if I click on the text the control bar shows a baseline shift of -5

    However there is no + sign next to the font so it has not been modified!

    How can you have a style applied to a block of text and yet the text has different characteristics than the style definition?

    This relates to another issue I have encountered when I apply a style to a block of text and the text is changed to a much larger font size than in the style definition. What can cause that?

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    Paul22570366d9hoAuthor
    Participant
    June 6, 2024

    It's worse that that!

    All my styles seem to have Baseline Shift to -5 in the text but not in the definition

    If I change to -4 (say) I get a + next to the style. Same for 3, 2 and 1.  However when I set to 0 (on the control bar) the + sign disappears

    So it's as if it thinks -5 and 0 baseline shift are both the same as the style definition

    Aghhh?

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