
This is where you can choose what font family you would like, font style, font size, leading, etc. In the left column select the Basic Character Formats section under General.Rename the Style Name to Header or something that makes sense to you. Double click to open a window that will allow you to edit this style. Once the icon is clicked, you will notice a new paragraph style option was created called Paragraph Style 1.It is the square shaped icon next to the trash can at the bottom of the panel. In the Paragraph Styles panel click the Create New Style icon. With the arrow tool selected, in the right toolbar, click in on the header text box. You will notice is the only style selected.


After you ensure that you have correctly applied all paragraph and character styles, you can remove all of the overrides with one more button. This is already really helpful, but you can take this one step further. The teal vertical bars in the left margin indicate paragraph-level overrides and the teal highlighting indicates character-level overrides. When you click the button at the top of the Paragraph or Character Styles panel, InDesign will display teal highlighting to indicate overrides.

In years past, I relied on my eyes-and those of my editors-to locate the overrides, but these days InDesign offers a Style Override Highlighter.

When you import text from Word and assign your styles, it may look OK at first glance:īut on closer inspection, I almost always find that the story has overrides pulled in with the Word file. They can be used in succession to quickly identify and then remove both paragraph and character overrides. InDesign has two great, yet often-overlooked features: Posted on: June 24th, 2019 Author: barb.binder Category: Adobe InDesign by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on InDesign Home / Adobe InDesign / Adobe InDesign: Quickly recognizing and removing overrides Adobe InDesign: Quickly recognizing and removing overrides
