within them, making them much more flexible. You don’t have to spec a typeface, size, etc. So far so good, and that’s one of the strengths of InDesign’s Character Styles. The end result is that Character Style’s specs consisted of just the call for “85 Heavy,” since that was the only local formatting difference between the selected text and the underlying Paragraph Style. Since they were going to use this style a lot, they created a Character Style based on it in the usual way – left the text selected and chose New Character Style, which I’ve named “plump” in the screen shot below. The user had created a Paragraph Style for body text that used the Avenir LT Std typeface with the style “55 Roman.” Then they selected some text in a styled paragraph and changed the style to “85 Heavy” to plump it up. Let me briefly explain how it came about, and how we fixed it. It’s easy to inadvertently let this happen, no matter how experienced you are with InDesign.
No, the problem was a Character Style that had been applied by mistake.
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