Comments on: Beware Basic Styles

By: InDesignSecrets » Blog Archive » When InDesign Ignores Your Leading Values

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:29:08 +0000

[...] align to grid is turned on for a paragraph style (say, for instance, the Basic Paragraph Style, if someone has been so foolish as to edit that style definition) in one document, but not in another. In that case, when someone copies text from document A to [...]

By: Old Jeremy

Old Jeremy — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:18:33 +0000

Dave Saunders wrote:
> What does [None] do that No Paragraph Style doesn’t?

It may give the impression that InDesign can do the same thing with paragraph styles as it does with character styles. (Such as removing one altogether.)

But it can’t, can it?

– Where no character style is applied, the formatting is determined by something more basic, usually the paragraph style. Where no paragraph style is applied, the “more basic” formatting takes on the role of a paragraph style, only now it works in a stealthy way!

By: MH

MH — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:56:34 +0000

It’s very annoying when apps decide to reformat at their discretion.

Duplicating the [Basic Paragraph] style, then swapping them back and forth with the find/change function seems like a good way to go.

By: Evadne

Evadne — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:47:22 +0000

Also, you could duplicate the [Basic Paragraph] style first (let it be [new]), then after you have reset it, use the Find / Change function to swap the styles.

By: Evadne

Evadne — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:44:33 +0000

Leslie:

Find the Paragraph Styles panel, and double-click on [Basic Paragraph].

You shall find a button called “Reset to Base”. Click it and you’re done.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:35:37 +0000

Sorry, Gecko, I don’t know of any way to do that.

By: Gecko

Gecko — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:19:38 +0000

Is there any way to open “old” files in ID 5, and have it use the Application preferences, instead of that documents? Quark had a workaround for this, promting you to choose which preference you wanted to use when you launcehed a file, but I can’t find a way to do this in ID? Specifically, I want to maintain my Advanced Type/Subscript & Superscript settings for ALL docs, not just newly created files. Thanx!

By: Leslie Nicole

Leslie Nicole — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:35:57 +0000

Also, how can you revert InDesign back to it’s defaut paragraph style?

By: Leslie Nicole

Leslie Nicole — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:31:29 +0000

Another unforeseen problem was when our seperations house would pick up our files and paste them into their larger layouts (for instance, we design the inside front covers for catalogs, but not the inside back covers. – or sometimes there is a gatefold overwrap) The font would change to their default and no one would notice. I’m having to go back and change all my templates as I had redefined the default font in all of them.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:01:21 +0000

I’ve defined a stroke color in an object style that never seems to stick, although the weight and effect (line end arrow) do. Is this related to the “basic style” problem you describe above?