Removing a character tag so that a paragraph tag will display

[Guest]

Hi,

I have a writer who didn't understand Paragraph vs Character tags and set a series of headings using Character tags and I need them to be headings so I can put them in my TOC, however I cannot un-apply the character tag to blank and use a paragraph tag.  I found a work around and that was to Command >Delete Format that enabled me to apply a paragraph tag but the character tag is still applied to the text.

Aside from deleting and rewriting the content, can I remove the character tag formatting from text?

Thanks

R

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Don't you just select the text, right-click, select Character > Restore Default Paragraph formatting (or something like that - I haven't got FM10 open right now)

[Guest]

Hi Jeff,

Thank you, but I do not see a "Restore Default Paragraph Formatting" there is the Default Font tag but that doesn't remedy the issue, I still can't apply a Paragraph heading and override nor remove the Character tag.  If you have a chance to look and find the Restore setting you referred to please let me know, I will give anything a whirl if I don't have to rewrite this content.

R

[Jeff_Coatsworth · Accepted solution]

Maybe I'm not understanding what you've got. I just did a quick test:

I have a line of text that's set to my Body paragraph tag; then I highlighted it and applied a character tag to it that made it change colour and font size. Then I selected the text again and applied my Heading 1 paragraph tag to it - the appearance of the text didn't change, but it now thinks it's a Heading 1, not a Body one anymore. I selected the text again and did the right-click > Characters > Default Paragraph Font (which you can also get to through Format > Characters > Default Paragraph Font) and it restored the text to my formatting for Heading 1.

[Guest]

Thank you Jeff, that worked!

R

[Arnis Gubins]

If a character tag has been applied to the entire paragraph, then that paratag also takes on those characteristics as an override. You have to re-apply the paratag to reset the paragraph back to the way it's supposed to be once the character tags have been removed.

1. Select entire paragraph (triple-click).

2. Click on "Default ¶ Font" in the Font catalog (this clears all character tags).

3. Click on the appropriate Heading paratag in the Paragraph catalog to apply it to the selected paragraph.