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Grundoon Groundhog
Inspiring
November 14, 2025
Question

Strange font conversions

  • November 14, 2025
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I have flowed a Word document into Indesign, and attempted to convert the Times Roman fonts to Adobe Garamond Premier Pro. No character or paragraph style has been applied. However, the Garamond fonts become superscript of their own accord. If I then select the fonts and deselect "superscript" the font changes to Arial.

2 replies

Willi Adelberger
Willi Adelberger
Community Expert
November 15, 2025

If you have any character or paragraph settings when you place text without any styles, these are taoken. 
Never work without styles. 

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Grundoon GroundhogAuthor
Inspiring
November 15, 2025

The master page columns are set to GX, general text, without any character style. The footnote reference style occurs anyway.

jmlevy
jmlevy
Community Expert
November 15, 2025

No character or paragraph style has been applied.

You have applied a “Normal” paragraph style (which is set in Arial) and a “Endnote reference” character style on the whole text. Both are overriden.

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Grundoon GroundhogAuthor
Inspiring
November 15, 2025

No, this continues to happen after I've deleted and replaced "Normal." The original "Normal" was Times Roman. Only one of several font bugs; I will address the others elsewhere.

jmlevy
jmlevy
Community Expert
November 15, 2025

The original "Normal" was Times Roman

This is how your “Normal” style is set up. No Times New Roman. And if you modify this style and set it up with Times New Roman, you get what is expected: your text will be in Times New Roman.

And you “Endnote reference” character style is in Garamond Premier Pro, small caps, superscript. So, all what happens is perfectly normal.

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