Paragraph Styles mystery

[tpicco]

OK... I'm really enjoying using InDesign (just switched) but the weird thing is...

I'm working on a 60 page document that originated in Word that I "placed" in InDesign. I apply a paragraph style I created, but here and there the font refuses to switch. The formats will change (ie: color, indenting, drop caps, whatever...) but the type won't switch. When I highlight the bad type I can manually switch it to the font I want (Adobe Jenson), but then the style sheet appends a "+" to that type selection... when I click again on the prargraph style title, the "+" disappears but the exact same type switches back to the same wrong font (Arial)!

The original Word doc was in New Times Roman... so I can't figure this one out.

Anyone else experience this?
Got any solutions?
I'm sure Microsoft's Word is somehow xcausing this problem...

 

[jimoblak]

Paragraph styles and character styles can conflict - - are you certain that a character style is not selected for this text as well as the paragraph style?

- - picklefish - -
Why is everyone in this forum responding to me as picklefish?

 

[tpicco]

No character styles applied... only paragraph style is applied... I think something must be up in the Word doc original

 

[tpicco]

Well here's my workaround... I went back to the original Word doc, opened it, re-saved it as Word 4 for Mac... highlighted & copied it in Word and pasted it in InDesign AFTER deleting the misbehaving type completely from InDesign... NOW it takes the para styles

I knew it was Word's fault.