Paragraph Styles applying different Font Style

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March 26, 2021
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I am setting up a book in Indesign using paragraph styles. My 'body text' paragraph style is set to Minion Variable Concept, Font Style Regular, Font size 12. However, whenever I apply 'body text' to a paragraph, it changes the style from 'Regular' to 'Semibold' or doesn't change anything. Below you can see the text selected shows up as 'body text' for the normal paragraph and the semi-bold paragraph. However, the 'clear formatting' option doesn't seem to be available. Highlighting manual overrides suggests that semibold is the set paragraph style, but the 'body text' style clearly shows it to be Regular text (not Semibold). Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks in advance!

Correct answer Brad @ Roaring Mouse

Do you perhaps have a Character Style applied that you are not aware of?

Brad @ Roaring Mouse

Community Expert

If you hold down Option and then click the style, does it clear the override?

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lemonrose229Author

Participant

I'm using windows so I tried pressing the 'Alt' key while the text was selected and pressing the style in the paragraph styles window. Unfortunately, it still seems to be glitching and reset the selected text to a previous style... I'm honestly just confused at this point lol

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patrick_4006

Participant

(I'm 4 years late but hopefully this is still useful for anyone who finds their way here)

The same kind of thing was happening with me, and I realized there was a also character style applied to this chunk of text. I hadn't created the character style -- it buried in the Word doc my client had given me -- so wasn't on my mind to look for until reading the ideas in this thread. Bad character style deleted, and everything is now as it should be 🙂