Toggle visibility Paragraph / Character Style

[Germain5CBE]

It would be practical to be able to know visually which style is applied in a document by showing / hiding / highlighting Paragraph style.

[Willi Adelberger · Accepted solution]

You can see it when you have open the Control or Property Panel or the Style Panels.

[Germain5CBE]

Bonjour Willi Adelberger,

Thank you for this tip. Very useful indeed. Do you know a way to highlight a non-override style in a document?

i.e. I have 27 paragraph styles in a document. I would like to be able to see which text box is using which paragraph style (or not).

[jmlevy]

You can see where a paragraph style is used by running a find-change.

[Laubender]

Hi Germain5CBE,

you can tell if there are actually style overrides for paragraph styles or character styles if you turn on the feature Style Override Highlighter. That's the little icon [a+] in the Paragraph Styles panel or in the Character Styles panel.

To highlight what style is used where is a different thing.

By scripting one could make that happen by applying style colors that are not printable to text according to the styles.

Marc Autret once did a script that is able to do this. Don't know if it still works with the current version of InDesign:

StyLighter 1.4 for InDesign CS4/CS5/CS6/CC
Marc Autret, November 22, 2013
https://www.indiscripts.com/post/2013/11/stylighter-1-4-for-indesign-cs4-cs5-cs6-cc

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )

[Laubender]

Just tested StyLighter 1.4 with InDesign 2022 version 17.3.0.

This script is still working very well:

Hm. If there are style overrides in the text the override color will obscure the color for the styles:

That could of course be an issue with your document.

So the first task should be to get rid of style overrides.

One strategy could be to use Find/Change:

Find all text where a particular paragraph style is applied.

Change formatting of the text to the exact same paragraph style.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )