how to make the font size stop changing?

[sivey@pdx]

I am using Neuton italic for image captions.

I want a consistent 10pt font with 12pt leading.

I set the font and then later the font changes. How can I make it not change?

If I need to switch from Neuton to something else, can this be done universally on my 200+ page document?

[Jay Maechtlen]

Start by looking at paragraph style and character styles.

Window>Styles>Paragraph Styles

Make sure that you've selected a style and set the properties for that style.

Set View>Screen Mode>Normal so you can see what's going on in the document,

Even go to Type > Show hidden characters.

That will give you a cluttered screen that shows you lots of information.

Then you can explore and start to observe what's happening in your document.

Then let us know if the paragraph style is changing, or if you have a strange character style showing up, or what.

[sivey@pdx]

Thanks for your help. Actually, I usually work this way ('normal' with hidden character shown). I guess it fits in with my cluttered life!

I can now see that my new 'captiontext' paragraph style had the font in it and at a size with many decimals. It was my own fault! Seeing those strange numbers, I didn't realize they were (apparently) all the same strange numbers! At least I hope that this was the entire problem! I will be vigilant now for font sizes!

[Laubender]

Hi,

you may have scaled a text frame and subsequently the text.

Show an example of your numbers. Do they have included any ( ) ?

Regards,
Uwe

[Jay Maechtlen]

Your question about the 200 pages lead me to suspect that you're new to this.

Since all text on the 200 pages will have some style, even if default -

if you want/need to, you should be able to edit the styles and change all text everywhere in the doc pretty easily.

Hoping, of course, that you didn't specify the font as an override somewhere. Then it might take search-and-replace.