Paragraph Style

[vevegirl13]

Good afternoon InDesign support community, so basically Im designing an interactive magazine about Black Cats for my college class Layout And Publishing In InDesign and one of the requirements in Paragraph Styles now 2 major things.

1.  they're easy for me execpt when I created a new paragraph style for one of the articles and it looks like this(see image 1 below) so heres the settings or preferences i put the paragraph style as (see images 2 and 3 below) and heres what the paragraph style is supposed to look like(see last image at the bottom of the images 1,2 and 3) so as you can see it doesn't look like that and when i did the exact same thing in a new document it worked perfectly. 

2. When I select a piece of text like a article title or something that I want to be a heading or a subheading etc... and I click on the paragraph style that I created after I added all the text to my pages of my magazine it adds the paragraph style to all of the text instead of just the text I selected for some reason and thats never happened to me in the past so I don't know why its happening to me now

Image 1Image 2Image 3Image 4

So if someone could PLEASE help me fix these 2 things ASAP that would be awesome!

Thanks!

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[Barb Binder]

Hi @vevegirl13:

Can you share the same screen shot but with the frame selected? (click it with the Selection tool). If you have multiple text frames on the page, choose Edit > Select all with the selection tool, and then share that screenshot instead.

I'm trying to figure out if you have a one-column frame divided into two columns or if you have two threaded frames. You are also using the paragraph split command—and I can't tell exactly where from the current screenshot—but that's the likely culprit splitting Bombay in half and hyphenating it.

~Barb

[Barb Binder · Accepted solution]

I'm convinced that's the answer to the first part of the question. Set Paragraph Layout back to Single Column 

As for part two, we can guess without seeing that you have line breaks and not hard returns at the end of the paragraph. That would make a design behave that way. It's desirable to always work with Type > Show Hidden Characters enabled so that you know exactly what's going on.

~Barb

[vevegirl13]

okIay tysm i will try those 2 things and let you know ASAP

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@vevegirl13

Turn ON Show Hidden Characters - then check if you've "hard" enters - or "soft" - so everything would be one long paragraph...