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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
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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....

    ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
    Abambo
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    AbamboCommunity ExpertAuthor
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    May 16, 2017

    I was more thinking about a feature like in character styles, where you can reset an overwrite to the underlying paragraph styling....

    Are you asking how to remove overrides from a paragraph style?

    It's the same as removing a character style override—select the text, hold the Alt/Opt key and click on the paragraph style name in the Paragraph Styles panel.


    No!

    I was cleaning up a messy file from one of my colleagues to give it a straight paragraph structure. The file has been taken over from early versions and modified and modified again, and nobody took care to clean-up the file to something clean and straight.

    But I need that, as soon as I add a second language layer in a multilanguage document. I create a base for each language and define all styles as dependent directly or indirectly from this style.

    I have a paragraph style A, defining a bunch of paragraph properties. Paragraph style B relies on paragraph A but changes a bunch of properties. Now I want to reset the kerning and or other properties back to what is defined in style A.

    I have 2 possibilities: RESET TO BASE and recreate the (wanted) differences (what btw I did in my case, as the difference was basically only the character colour) or I could manually adapt the parameter to what is defined in the base (like changing the paragraph language from US English to UK English as used in the base).

    The first method supposes that the changes to the child paragraph style are not too important, the second method supposes that you know the parameters as they are defined in the parent style (you know what has been changed, but you do not know the original values). It would be nice to be able to just "delete" (or reset to base for one field only) the overwrite as you can do with character styles for using the paragraph defined parameters.

    Character styles depending on a parent are the same, except that thy tend to be easier to handle.

    The problem is also present for object styles, but as they are not so extensively used, I have fewer "problems" with them.

    I hope this describes the problem better than the short form.

    ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
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