![]() ![]() Only about half-way through did I realize I’d made a mistake.Īlmost all those double spaces were after the number in the endnote text entry. For this book, as I imported each chapter, I rather ruthlessly culled out all double-spaces. Before you get rid of anything in the original, ask yourself if it has value. It’s also a good idea to test any change on a small block of text, say a few representative paragraphs, before doing it on everything. Then when you select the entire document and run Clear Overrides as described above, it will strip out that now-pesky Word formatting but leave the ID character styles untouched.Īlso, before you do any global change like this, save a copy of your document just in case that change goes awry. For instance, search for a Font Style-Basic Character format of Italic, then replace it with an Italic character style. The trick is to import that Word document with the local formatting retained, then use search and replace to change that local formatting to an ID character style. I have to retain that local formatting on import to keep the italicized words and superscripted endnote numbers of the original. Changing each paragraph by hand would take hours. I’m dealing with a 400+ page scientific book imported from Word documents and most paragraphs, even though styled for ID, retain elements of their formatting. (Personally, I never use these variations, but I suppose it’s nice to know they’re available.) Or, you can Command/Ctrl-click on the button to clear only character formatting overrides or Command-Shift-click/Ctrl-Shift-click to clear only paragraph formatting overrides. Instead, select all (Command/Ctrl-A) and click the Clear Overrides button (or choose Clear Overrides from the Paragraph Style palette flyout menu). That all shows up as local formatting, but it would be tedious to remove with the Option/Alt-click trick. Let’s say someone changed the text for an entire story (headings, body text, and so on) by selecting all and changing the font size. So InDesign offers a better solution: The Clear Overrides button. ![]() If you want to clear both local formatting and any character style applied to the text, Shift-Option-click/Shift-Alt-click.īut the problem with both of these is that you have to place your cursor in a paragraph first, or select that one paragraph, or select more than one contiguous paragraph to clear and apply the style to all those paragraphs. Even better, if you hover the cursor over a style with a plus sign, it will show you what the local formatting is in a tool tip window.Īs the tool tip points out, you can Option/Alt-click on the style name to clear the local formatting from this paragraph. Place your text cursor in some text and look in the Paragraph Styles palette a plus sign next to the style name indicates local formatting (style “overrides”). You may not realize it, but you almost certainly have some sort of local styling on top of your paragraph styles. But the imported text is not how it should look! It still has some Word formatting! This is an age-old problem for me… How do I get my Word styles to import nicely into InDesign without having to do all that manual formatting in InDesign to take out the stuff Word left behind? I create a style in InDesign, apply styles in Word, using the same exact name as I do in InDesign, then import the text into InDesign. ![]()
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