Styles Palette Question?

[Nohjekim]

This is something that has bugged me for a long time.
When I use the styles palette it will often change the palette info instead of the type.

This morning for instance.

I am working on a menu and had set the style for the categories i.e. OMELETTES.

I did this by formatting the first one and then inserting the curser in the type and clicking new style on the palette menu. A quick look showed that all the setting were correct.
Font, weight, size, and color as well as paragraph instruction for the amount of space before and after plus the alignment.

However when I returned to the document and tried to format the next one, (inserting the cursor and clicking the name in the styles palette) instead of giving me what I wanted it added a plus after the name in the palette and made the type regular instead of bold. Every thing else changed as it should.

I have this happen often. What am I doing wrong; some times if I go to “no styles” and the come back it will change sometimes not.

All of my body text formatted with out any problem.

This time I ended up going through and dragging over each heading and selecting bold one at a time.

Any help appreciated

Mike

 

[viol8ion]

The plus sign usually means that the applied style has been overridden but another style applied to the text within that style.... geez.. there has to be an easier way to say this... LOL

For instance, did you apply an italics to any of the text within that style? If so, then you will see the plus sign. When in doubt, deny all terms and defnitions.

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[Nohjekim]

Hi viol8ion

All I did was format the type in the normal manner, i.e. I set the size, font, color, and the spacing before and after using the control, color, and paragraph controls.

These were all simple one or two word headlines, Omelets etc. there was no internal formatting the whole thing was the same spec.

Once I was satisfied that I had the configuration that I wanted to use for the whole menu I placed the cursor in the type and clicked on the arrow on the Styles Palette and selected New Style. I didn’t make any changes in the styles dialog.

Then I named it Categories and closed the dialog box.

The name then appeared in the Styles Palette but when I used it the type remained regular even though it said bold in the description and the plus sign appeared.

I have had this happen many times but never been able to figure out why.

Once it happens I can not seem to stop the plus sign from appearing.
Other times it works normally and makes all the changes I have selected, with no plus sign.

I’m sure that I’m doing exactly as the instructions said; I looked again just to make sure I wasn't missing something.

Mike

 

[viol8ion]

>>The name then appeared in the Styles Palette but when I used it the type remained regular even though it said bold in the description and the plus sign appeared.<<

Is the font you bolded a true bold font, or faux bold? If you print, does it print bolded? Do you have ATM or another font manager that will let you preview the fonts? If you bring the font up in ATM or Bitstream Font Manager, you will be able to preview and if it has a ture bold, that will display in the preview, if it doesn't, you applied a faux bold.. maybe the problem? When in doubt, deny all terms and defnitions.

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