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August 16, 2023
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Indesign Paragraph Styles

  • August 16, 2023
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I've been doing paragraph styles and always work, until today.  I made a new style based on No Paragraph Style, when i try to apply the style to another pargarph it chages to default, also when I make changes I don't get the plus to redefine the paragaph style. I'm doing what I have been doing for years, did something changed in the updates? Help?

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Correct answer Peter Spier

I guess I don't know much about Indesign, were do I find IDMLing or ID-Tasker

 


ID Tasker is a plugin develped by @Robert at ID-Tasker 

To get .idml go to File > Export... and save as .idml. Open that and save as a new .indd file.

But when a paragraph style refuses to to format existing text the problemn is often that a character style has also been apply, either directly, or through a GREP or Nested Style, or formatting has been applied as a local override, so check those things first.

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Willi Adelberger
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 16, 2023

I suppose you could have applied a character style. Remove it from the paragraph. 

Participating Frequently
August 16, 2023

Also, when I open the Paragraph Style Options it shows the font and size I choose. Is just not appling the style.

 

Robert at ID-Tasker
Legend
August 16, 2023

Trash InDesign's preferences and / or do IDMLing on your file. 

 

Robert at ID-Tasker
Legend
August 16, 2023

Not almost the same, exactly the same. Was added to the Save As menu back around CS6 because so many users couldn't seem to find it under Export...


I was comparing them in Total Commander - as packages - and there have been few differences - but haven't compared after unpacking.