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Susan Flamingo
Susan Flamingo
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February 11, 2025
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Styles misbehaving

  • February 11, 2025
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Hi, Dear Friends!

I have a PAR style that, for some strange reason, while the chars ARE NOT SET to bold, they are showing up as bold/. So I manually made them regular, and there is no + char next to that style. SO I can not remodify the style.

But I want all the instances NOT TO BE BOLD. WHat is going on here?

 

Thank you, and have a good day!
Susan Flamingo

Correct answer Peter Spier

In the screen shot it appears that the highlighted text has a character style applied up in the Control Panel...

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Barb Binder
Community Expert
Barb BinderCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 11, 2025

Hi Susan:

 

InDesign has two features that help us track down overrides:

  • The Style Override highlighter [a+], and
  • Clear overrides in Selection ¶*

 

 

I know you said you aren't seeing the + indicating overrides but I'd still revisit overrides with those two features to fully rule them out.

 

Once you do, the next place I'd look is in the Paragraph style definition as per @davecourtemanche: specifically to see if Nested Styles or GREP styles are in use (either of which will change the type style, but will not show up as overrides.)


~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
Susan Flamingo
Susan FlamingoAuthor
Known Participant
February 12, 2025

Thanks for the help, but it is not working.

Here are screenshots:: (don't let the Hebrew distract you)

1. You can see the par style BLOCKQUOTE is applied. You can see there are no override

2. In the PAR style setting, you can see that the font is regular and not bold

3. you can see bold text with that style applied.

 

So what am I missing?

Susan Flamingo
Susan FlamingoAuthor
Known Participant
February 12, 2025

In the screen shot it appears that the highlighted text has a character style applied up in the Control Panel...


That did it!

Thank you, and have a good day!
Susan Flamingo

 

davecourtemanche
davecourtemanche
Inspiring
February 11, 2025

Have you checked if there is a character style on the copy? Are you using any nesting or GREP styling in the paragraph style?

    Robert at ID-Tasker
    Robert at ID-Tasker
    Legend
    February 11, 2025

    Can you post some screenshots? 

     

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