After unmerging cells, or adding new rows: strange “preferences” appear!

[dublove]

inexplicable relationship.
When you unmerge cells, the font of the rows suddenly gets bigger.

When you add new rows, the font of the rows suddenly gets bigger too.

I researched this for a long time and realized that the preference option appeared.
These rows establish a relationship with the aa character style, and it's a bit creepy how they do it ......

[Mike Witherell]

All cells should be controlled by a Cell Style. After unmerging cells, your next step would be to re-apply the correct Cell Style; then look at the Cell Style to see if a + sign shows up. If so, you probably need to remove overrides not defined by the style.

Tables can have attributes coming from 5 origins. Read about it in an article on my website:

https://trainingonsite.com/213-indesign-typesetting-attributes-hierarchy.html

[dublove]

Hi Mike Witherell 

What's this for?
What you say is always, not very specific ......a little hard to guess

[Laubender · Accepted solution]

Hi @dublove ,

opened your sample InDesign document and did some tests.

Yes, I see the same issue when unmerging the cell that reads "2018".

So why does this happen?
Explanation: in the Character Styles panel the character style "aa" is selected.

Screenshot after I opened your document, navigated to page 2 and opened the Character Style panel:

Solution:

If you select the "None" style in the Character Styles panel and, as a second step, unmerge the cell, all is working as expected.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

[dublove]

No aa wasn't selected ......but just like you said.

Sorry.

Maybe it's not a good example.
In my book, no character styles are checked.

Maybe you're right.
Here's the example I isolated, original bug I couldn't upload the whole thing.

You're trying to produce an example as if it would only happen if aa was selected.
But the bug happens when the character style is pointing to none