Font size changes from frame to frame.

[Poseidon3]

I'm a new, basically seat of the pants InDesign user, although I've worked with Quark a lot. I'm laying out a book with text, photos and captions. I am finding that in my text frames, in some the font comes out enlarged by a half-point even though the character properties value remain the same (actually, it seems to be .6 point larger). Sometimes it's happened in a new frame when the text flows from the preceding frame -- that is, even when it's a continuous flow  It's hard to correct. So far,I've done it by creating a new frame and copying the text into it. I can't even identify the problem to look for it in the help guide. How can I correct this and avoid it happening in the first place? Thank you. 

[Derek Cross]

Hi  Poseidon3

Welome to the InDesign forum.

Which version of InDesign and OS do you have?

I'm not sure what's going on with your font sizes but you'll find it really useful in the long term if you learn to use InDesign Paragraph (and Character) styles. 

In the meantime I suggest you reset your InDesign preferences back to the factory defaults to see if that sorts out the issue:

1) Close InDesign
2) Double click on Adobe InDesign's icon to launch it
3) QUICKLY hold down Ctrl+Alt+Shift. (for Windows) or CTL+OPT+CMD+Shift (for Mac OS X)
4) When a dialogue appears, asking you “Delete InDesign Preference Files?” Click Yes.
If you don't see the question repeat the procedure again.

[Steve Werner]

I agree with @Derek Cross's great advice, especially about setting up paragraph styles to format your text (which of course you are probably familiar with from QuarkXPress.

But a common mistake when formatting text when you're selecting it with the Type tool is not to select the pilcrow character (end of paragraph). You should turn on hidden characters to see it (Type > Show Hidden Characters, or select it from the View Options button at the bottom of the Tools panel). Variation between paragraphs could also happen if other characters in the paragraph have different size.

[Poseidon3]

Fingers crossed, but that seems to have done it. Thanks Derek & Steve! 

[Steve Werner]

If it works, mark the answer(s) as correct. This helps other users.

[Poseidon3]

I regret to say that upon further review, it works some of the time but not all of the time...so still figuring. Thanks. RF

[Derek Cross]

Try saving the document as an IDML document to clear out any crud that might have built up, and reopening it as a new (incrementally) named InDesign document. Let us know if that helped.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

If it's for the whole TextFrame - check the scale of this TextFrame.