Preventing Transfer of Swatches and Styles Between InDesign Documents
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Learn / Forums / InDesign User Groups / Preventing Transfer of Swatches and Styles Between InDesign Documents
Is there a way to prevent objects or text from bringing in associated swatches/styles when being copied from one InDesign document to another?
I work in a lot of different InDesign documents where I have to copy old text from one document to another, and often times the original paragraph styles are transferred into my new, clean document, muddying it up with tons of irrelevant styles that I have to go through and delete manually. I know how to paste without formatting between documents but for some reason their associated swatches/styles are still transferred to the new document when the names differ. It’s a very time consuming task to go through a delete all of the copied styles/swatches and reassign to the document’s established ones, and I would love to find a work-around that strips clipboard items of their previous styles.
If File > Place, turn on Show Import Options (sometimes accomplished by holding the Shift key down as you click Place/Open) and in this second dialog box you have the ability to strip all styles out.
Also, in the realm of copy n paste, under the Edit menu, you can Paste Without Formatting.
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