Need a paragraph style that doesn't override a font style within

[kathleend82868475]

When I set up a Paragraph style and apply it to Placed text, most of the time the Paragraph style will honor any embedded style anomalies (such as a single word in a paragraph that is italic rather than regular text). But sometimes a Paragraph style will turn all text within a paragraph to a single style (regular).

I know that if I create an "italic" Character style and apply that to every word in a book that arrives in italic, a Paragraph style will honor those. But is there any way to choose "No style" when setting up a Paragraph style so the Placed text remains stylistically intact when it arrives? I don't see that option - only regular, italic, etc, which will apply to the whole paragraph.

I can't explain why the italics within paragraphs sometimes survive my Paragraph styles and sometimes don't - I doubt some of my clients are marking their Word docs in any special way and others aren't - I doubt any of them are.

Please let there be a benevolent Adobe-Deity out there that won't make me mark every single italic word in every book.

I'm running Adobe 20.0.1 on a MacBook Pro, Sequoia 15.2. 

[Jeffrey_Smith · Accepted solution]

Is the end goal to import text and then easily apply an ID character style for occurrences of italic?

Your placed text most likely contains a mixture of "styled" and "formatted" italic text. This is a result when you import text and select "Preserve" Styles and Formatting. You can remap styles to other styles during import, but this will not affect formatted italic texts. You can perform a Find/Change and search for any text formatted italic, and then replace with a pre-existing character style containing italic attributes.

[kathleend82868475 · Accepted solution]

I just now ditched the "Preserve Styles and Formatting" and tried using the "Remove Styles and Formatting/Preserve Local Overrides" instead in the import options, and it's giving me what I want - keeping the occasional italic intact. I guess I've misunderstood the import options all this time. Thanks for sending me in that direction.

[Peter Spier]

Take a look at https://creativepro.com/perfectpreptext-a-smart-way-to-style-local-formatting/

[kathleend82868475]

Excellent - thanks for this -