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Editing, clearing, and redefining styles

Editing, clearing, and redefining styles - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign 2023 Essential Training

Editing, clearing, and redefining styles

- [Instructor] Now that we've talked about creating and applying paragraph and character styles, you need to know how to edit them. But first, let me talk about style overrides. I'll go to the layout menu and choose previous spread. Then I'll place my text cursor inside this paragraph on the right, and I'll open the paragraph styles panel. You can see next to the style that's highlighted that there's a little plus symbol. That plus sign means there's formatting on top of the paragraph style, something different. This is called a local override, and in fact if you hover your cursor over the style you'll see a little tool tip that shows you the override. Here it says the size and letting have changed. Now, you can make local formatting or local overrides more obvious by clicking this little plus icon or button up here in the upper right corner of the panel, that turns on the local override alert which is this blue highlighting…

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