Paragraph styles - font, font size and line spacing

[Gustavo Fiorini Marques]

Hello!
I would like to know how I can apply paragraph styles without italicizing text. I layout scientific texts and in order not to have to check word for word, I want it to only apply font, font size and line spacing. How do I do this?

[Scott Falkner]

I'm not following. If you want the text to not be italicized then make sure the font in the style is not an italic font. Have I misunderstood your question?

[Jeff Witchel, ACI]

Do you have an Italic Character Style applied to the whole patagraph? Never apply Character Styles to whole paragraphs. It's a bad practice. Character Styles are meant to change the character formatting of part of a paragraph. Chatacter Styles are all powerful and will overpower the character formatting in your Paragraph Style.

My guess is, that's why you can't change the formatting.

To fix: In the Character Styles panel, apply None and your Paragraph Style should act "normally" again.

Hope this helps!

[Gustavo Fiorini Marques]

I have a text like this:

"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum."

This happens when I copy the text from Microsoft Word to InDesign. I apply the paragraph style or character style and what is italicized is normal. I want the italicized words to stay italicized, even if I apply a style. I don't want to correct the italics every time.

[Jeff Witchel, ACI · Accepted solution]

Ah, you're losing your italic when you copy and paste. Thanks another story. Copy and paste ignores formatting.

Place your text from Microsoft Word into your layout instead.

Go to File > Place in your layout, find the MS Word file and hold down your Shift key when you click Open. In the Options dialog window, select Preserve Styles and Formatting from Text and Tables. 

This will hold onto the formating, but will also bring MS Word Styles along for the ride.

[Jeff Witchel, ACI · Accepted solution]

After you bring in your text. You can use Find/Change to apply an Italic Character Style to all italic text (Edit > Find/Change) This will preserve the Italic as you apply Paragraph Styles.

[Laubender]

Hi Gustavo,

if you want to maintain the "basic" formatting of the text, the typeface you defined with the applied paragraph style and you want to paste text from Word where that "basic" typeface stays applied, but character formatting like "italic" stays "italic", "bold" stays "bold", "bold-italic" stays "bold-italic" and "underline" stays "underline", you should test the RichPaste.jsx script by Marc Autret:

RichPaste | Copy and Paste with Minimal Formatting [UPDATE]
Marc Autret, April 06, 2016
https://www.indiscripts.com/post/2015/10/richpaste-copy-and-paste-with-minimal-formatting

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[Gustavo Fiorini Marques]

Thanks!

Best solution. Very practical 🙂