Text bunching up when I add a percentage sign

[DigitalChickster]

Hi all! I have the weirdest thing happening! I'm using InDesign CC 14.0.2 on my iMac.

I have a list of items, and after each item... there's a tab (with periods as a leader) then a number/percentage.

If I just have the line item, the tab/leader and the number... it's fine. When I add in the percentage sign... the number and the percentage sign get all jumbled up together. It's so weird! I checked the kerning... and it's normal. What can I do?

Below is an example. The second "Industry magazine" shows how it looks before I add in a percentage sign. Normal. All the others show what it looks like when the percentage sign has been added at the end of each line.

[BobLevine]

What type of tab are you using? Decimal? Right aligned?

[DigitalChickster · Accepted solution]

Well, I seemed to have fixed the problem. I'm not sure what was causing it, but I selected all the text and did "Clear all overrides." Then I just redid the formatting and that worked.

To answer your questions...

Bob: I used a right aligned decimal.

SJRiegel: Changing the font did not help. I did try that.

I didn't think about checking the styles. Thanks!

[SJRiegel]

A couple of thoughts:

1) It could be a problem with a corrupted font. Does changing the font fix it?

2) If this is an existing file you are working in, there could be an errant GREP style or nested style playing with your text.