Single word justification overriding paragraph style sheet when InDesign files reopened

[user4100510]

A colleague is using InDesign 2024 with MacOS Ventura and has set up an InDesign paragraph style sheet with text aligned left and no justification. When they reopen the file after someone else has edited the file, single word justify is automatically applied to the style sheet without them making the change themselves.

This is causing a reflow of text, bad word spacing and kerning!

Their only option is to go back in and change stylesheet manually to arrange left.

Is this a glitch that needs fixing?

[BobLevine]

Have you checked with the other person editing this file? Styles do not change themselves.

[user4100510]

Thanks for your reply. The other User made text correction edits, but didn't change the text formatting either locally or in the stylesheets.

[Peter Spier]

Sounds more like some sort of error by the other user. Is the style redefined? Or does this seem like a local override?

[user4100510 · Accepted solution]

Actually, i've just found out that the original file was created in CS6 (!) and when converted to InDesign2024 the stylesheets have been overridden (treating whole lines of text as one word, without the designer making this change in the stylesheets)

The original style sheets were set up as follows:

InDesign > Paragraph styles > Justification > Single Word Justifications setting was set to “Align Left”

And through the conversion process changed to “Full Justify”

So it sounds like one of those legacy issues we used to come across when updating files from CS to Adobe CC versions.

[Barb Binder]

I have to ask: what is single word justify?

Justification is a paragraph-level attribute (meaning it always impacts an entire paragraph). You can't justify a single word unless the single word is its own paragraph. Any chance you can share before/after screenshots we can see exactly what you're dealing with?

~Barb

Edit: It's early here. You are specifically referring to this, which specifies how you want to justify single-word paragraphs?