InDesign--Problem editing type

[thawk2001]

Every time I highlight particular text to edit it, all of the changes get applied to all of the text in the frame. There might be a very simple solution to this but I am quite new to InDesign.

Example 1: I highlighted the first line of text and tried to align it to the middle, and all of my text was affected.

Example 2: I highlighted one line of text and clicked on a specific paragraph style I had created, and the style applied to all of the text. 

[Barb Binder · Accepted solution]

InDesign offers character-level formatting and paragraph-level formatting. Character-level formatting only impacts the text that you select, paragraph-level formatting always impacts the entire paragraph.

Alignment is a paragraph-level command as is applying a paragraph style. You can assign a character style to selected text.

For example, the Control panel has two views for formatting text: the A is character view (you must highlight) and the ¶ is paragraph view (always applied to the entire paragraph).

Character view

Paragraph view (the alignment commands and the paragraph styles list are both outlined)

~Barb

[thawk2001]

Thanks a bunch!