Questions tagged [character-styles]
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InDesign: Imported text overrides my font styles, even with "Remove Styles and Formatting for Text and Tables" checked
I've been dealing with this issue for months, and it sometimes doubles my work time on things that shouldn't be taking so long. It's a bit of an essay, so here's a bulleted list to easily show the ...
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Text Frame Defauls
In one particular file I am using and editing in inDesign, when I open a new text box it is using a particular character style which I don't want. How can I stop text boxes opening with a character ...
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Set text to white automatically on dark spreads
I'm working on an illustrated book with artwork throughout. Every so often, I have a spread that has a dark background. I've created a Master page with headers and folios set in white but I can't see ...
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How do I find a specific character and apply a character style using InDesign?
How do I find all the ®'s and ™'s in a large body of text and apply a superscript character style to each find? Thanks.
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Set each letter to a different colour based on a rule
Is there a way in adobe illustrator to change all same letters to a specific colour, ideally based on a rule. For example look at the image below: I'd like to have a "rule" (something like ...
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Auto decimal for numbering in Indesign
Is there a way to make numbers separated with decimal symbol automatically and non-destructive in Indesign? For example there is large numbers in my article which I'm designing now: I have "six ...
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When using underlines for emphasis, should spaces be underlined?
I'm not asking when to underline. There are myriad references for that via a simple internet search. However, this one doesn't seem to appear anywhere... For print-based projects.... I'm curious if ...
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Illustrator: I have paragraph styles with baseline shifts, can I make a character style to add to that shift?
This is kind of a confusing question, so let me try and elaborate. I made paragraph styles with different baseline shifts depending where they start around objects. For example directly to the left is ...
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GREP: Change spaces for tabs in specific conditions
I want to know the way in InDesign with GREPs, if possible, to any paragraph that starts with numbers followed by a period and a space ("00" + [.] + [space]"), and replace the space for ...
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how get paragraph style and character style of selected text in indesign by script
I want the selected text to be displayed to me when I select a word or text in InDesign by executing the style paragraph script and its style character?
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InDesign Create Table of Contents based on character style?
I'm creating a small dictionary to accompany a new project and in it I have things formatted where the paragraph style is just my generic Body Copy style but the defined term itself is its own ...
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Can I automatically apply a different paragraph style to all paragraphs beginning with a specific character style?
I'm laying out a very long encyclopedia which has lots of entries. The title of each article is inline with the first paragraph (each entry has multiple paragraphs), but does have a character style ...
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Styling characters into a pragraph
I am looking for a specific design on characters or words in an Adobe InDesign paragraph. I styled a paragraph as a little pill. But I want to apply this design on a certain word in a larger ...
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Determining the usage of a character style in InDesign
While working on a book layout on InDesign (2019 version), I've made some experiments with character styles. Thus, I've created an empty character style in order to use it for marking the part of a ...
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Setup GREP Style to move numbers to next line InDesign
I'm working on typesetting a book in InDesign that has verses. Each verse starts with a number. The numbers can't be at the end of the line as it is the beginning of the text on the next line. I ...
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