From the course: InDesign 2020 Essential Training
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Editing, clearing, and redefining styles - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2020 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 jump to the previous spread by pressing Option or Alt + page up. And now I'm going to place my cursor in this paragraph over here on the right. 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 that we click inside this paragraph, I still see that plus sign, and that plus sign means there's formatting on top of the paragraph style, something different, and this is called a local override. And in fact, if you hover your cursor over that style, you can see a little tool tip that shows you the override. Here it says that the size and letting have been changed. Now you can make local formatting, or local overrides, more obvious by…
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