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Abambo
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AbamboCommunity Expert
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May 16, 2017
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Resetting part of a style to parent...

  • May 16, 2017
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Hi community,

By looking at a document created by someone other, I detected some odd (paragraph) style formatting, that I wanted to reset to the parent's values, without having to look into the parent's settings. Is there a solution to this problem? I see what values have been changed, obviously, this is of a great help, but I do not see the original values.

I tried "delete", but that did not work.

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amaarora
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amaaroraCommunity Manager
Community Manager
May 16, 2017

Hi,

There can be two cases here:

CASE 1: One style based on other and you want to reset it to the parent style

If you have based paragraph style say P2 on paragraph style P1 (parent) and you want to reset P2 to P1 again all you need to do is click on the "Reset to Base" option in the general tab of Paragraph styles.

As shown below:

CASE 2: Style is applied to some text and is then changed (overriden) and you want to set it back or undo its overriden features

If you have style P1 applied to some text and it has been overriden then you may be seeing a   sign in front of that style in paragraph style dialog box. In that case to remove its overriden features all you need to do is roght click on the style and select "clear overrides" option

-Aman

    Abambo
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    AbamboCommunity ExpertAuthor
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    May 16, 2017

    That's OK when I want to reset all to basic. Indeed I did as this and reattributed the different formatting changes, I needed the styles to have. My document was easy. So that was not the problem. I was more thinking about a feature like in character styles, where you can reset an overwrite to the underlying paragraph styling....

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    vintezisCS
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    January 22, 2023

    I believe you are looking for a "partial" reset. That does not exist although it would be handy, but it would have to be a section by section reset since InDesign would have no way to know what settings you want to reset. 

     

    I could see a feature request for a reset by category. For example, under the Advanced Character Formats section, a button that says something to the effect of "Reset this section". You can suggest the feature at: https://indesign.uservoice.com/

     

    Another option is to use Character styles to change the parameters depending on the settings you want to change. You mentioned language and kerning, both of which can be controlled with Character styles. Obviously, if you are changing paragraph-based settings, this would not work.


    It would be great with similar solution like in character-style > character color section where you can click with command on the color name and it will be removed. So not "None", just inherited from paragraph text color.

     

    So for example, if you changed some parameter in a child paragraph-style, and you wanted to reset just this one, only press a command+backspace, and reset this parameter back to inherited value.

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