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Editing, clearing, and redefining styles - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2024 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'm going to go to the layout menu and choose "previous spread." Now I'm going to place my text cursor in this paragraph over here on the right page. When I open my paragraph styles panel, you can see a little plus symbol right next to the style name, the one that's highlighted. In fact, anywhere I click inside this paragraph, you'll see that plus sign, and that plus sign means there's formatting on top of the paragraph style, something different. This is called a local override. In fact, if you hover your cursor on top of that paragraph style, it'll even show you a little tool tip that shows you the override. Here it says the size and letting has been changed. You can make local formatting or local overrides more obvious by clicking this little…
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