Identifying and clearing overrides
As you work with styles, it is quite common to find yourself in a situation where you have applied a style to some content, but the formatting has subsequently been changed on the content. In effect, you have a style applied, but you also have some manual formatting overriding elements of your style.
In this recipe, we will look at how to recognize when you have overrides active on both specific content and in multiple areas, and also how to clear these overrides by resetting your content back to the original style.
Getting ready
In order to complete this recipe, simply open InDesign on your system and create a new document with 12 pages, as shown in the Creating a new document recipe in Chapter 1. You should be comfortable creating and applying paragraph styles as shown in the Creating paragraph styles recipe.
How to do it
In order to identify and clear overrides, just follow these steps:
- First, let’s create a large...
