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Grundoon Groundhog
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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.

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Willi Adelberger
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Willi AdelbergerCommunity Expert
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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
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jmlevyCommunity Expert
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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

But when I delete the Normal style to replace it with the correct style, it all becomes Arial which I never use. Also, I have NOT applied the endnote reference style; it simply happens of its own accord. There is no style set up in the text boxes when the text is flowed in. Perhaps I should set it to general text first?

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Grundoon GroundhogAuthor
Inspiring
November 17, 2025

Is Alt shift Control + Shfit on a MAC?

I am also on a Mac. The Alt key is also called Option (depending on the keyboard you use).

If you Alt (Option) click on the paragraph style, you remove overrides. If you Alt(Option) Shift click on the paragraph style, you remove overrides AND any character style.

 

in fact I checked the character style panel to be sure it was at NONE before flowing the text in. It was.

Well… I don't know. The only things I am sure are that:

  1. new frame in your document has * 3 col b continuous pargraph style and **Endnote reference+ applied
  2. character style or paragraph styles can't be applied without any user intervention

Other thing: I have imported the Word text in a new document. It comes with 2 paragraph styles. Both are in Arial. There is also one character stye, set in superscript.

And I wonder why you have so much paragraph and character style. Do you really need all?


Well, I am not intervening to set that unwanted character style. I wonder if this is a bug in the new version, as I uninstalled and reinstalled, but the problem persisted.

Yes, it's a complex magazine with many many styles required. I am accustomed to imposing them when needed.

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