Expert: Candice Anderson - 1/16/2009

Question
QUESTION: Is there a way to clear overrides on a paragraph style across a whole document?  Like... choose all the text boxes in a 100 page document and clear the overrides on all of them?  I know Alt-clicking clears the override on a single text box, or multiple text boxes with the same style in one document, but I have to either click them each one by one, or marquee select a group of them, etc.

ANSWER: correct me if I'm reading this wrong, but why don't you just make a new style that will fix your override? You'll have to reselect everything to apply the style...but it'll be quicker than what you're doing.

Or, if you are applying the override to all of your work, just go into the style box (double click) and fix what you keep overriding. Anything that has the style applied, will adhere to what you change. So, if you say you want blue writing on anything that has had the style applied, then the the applied styles will change to blue.


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QUESTION: Let me give you more detail as reapplying the style wasn't the solution... and it's not apparent what I need to override.

Text in text boxes were a few different styles.  One of the paragraph styles was MSGothic and the text in the text frames were in Japanese... it now needs to be Arial in English. So I went into the paragraph style for MSGothic and changed it to Arial. Now I have to cut and paste the English text from MS PowerPoint.  It drops in looking a little darker with a "+" by the paragraph style for that text frame. So I select all the text frames on that one page for that same style, and Alt-Click the paragraph style to clear overrides.  My question is... is there a way to select all the text frames in the document (100+ pages) with the same style only (as I don't think you can override two different styles at the same time -that would be nice too) so I only have to Alt-Click once?  This has to be done AFTER the text is pasted as there is "+" next to the paragraph style until after the text is pasted in... which unfortunately I have to do page, after page :(  

Answer
I see what you are talking about now.

Feel free to ask someone else, but I tried to recreated your scenerio and it just shouldn't' be doing that. My thought is that for some reason you have something accidentally turned on in your style to make it do that.

What I did to alleviate the problem was, I created my new style first, English text Arial, and then started pasting. And I did this in Character styles,  not Paragraph Styles.

Hope this helps more.