Sometimes clicking on the minus button next to a style applied to type in the inspector is not successful at getting the typestyle to go away. Is there a trick to force this to happen so that you can apply the style you want without both the wanted and unwanted styles applied to the type?
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Cmd+Click on the style name on the styles palette might do the trick?
I’ve never ever used the inspector simply because I need to open the styles-tap in order to do that one particular thing. The styles-palette is far more obvious.
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FWP 6 user → me.
Peter, over the years I’ve found that FWP can be stubborn sometimes about
styles. Here are some working practices I’ve developed…
The easiest and best way to apply a style, un-apply a style, or delete a
style is by using the Styles palette. Any text you’ve selected will show
you which styles are applied. Applying an existing style to selected text
is as easy as clicking the style name. The Style Editor can easily be
brought up for an existing style by right-clicking (or control-clicking)
the style name in the palette. It’s a good idea to do this so as to change
your stylename into something more descriptive that style615.
Un-applying a style through the Styles palette is a bit less easy - you
have to select the text to which the style is applied first. Even if you
select a bit more text, as long as you’ve selected the whole block of text
with that style, the stylename will be highlighted and you then can
command-click it (hold the command key and click the highlighted
stylename). This should deselect it. However, if the number or application
of styles is a bit complex, FWP may not be able to un-apply the style this
way. The big guns way to un-apply a style is to select the block of text
affected, then use the menu command Styles > Remove Styling. This will
remove ALL styles applied to that block of text, reverting it back to plain
paragraph text. You will then have to re-apply the styles you wish to keep
Deleting styles is not the same as un-applying them - unapplied styles, in
most cases, can be re-applied. Deleting a style not only deletes every
application of that style, but removes the style completely from the
document. This creates a vacuum that FWP wants to fill - right-click the
stylename from the Style palette and choose Delete Style… if this style is
used anywhere, FWP will ask for a replacement style - or No Style - which
is what I choose more often than not, but you can make a global replacement
this way.
Apply, un-apply, delete, Remove Styles… I hope this helps you get a better
handle on your styles.
–
Ernie Simpson
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Peter Laundy email@hidden wrote:
Sometimes clicking on the minus button next to a style applied to type in
the inspector is not successful at getting the typestyle to go away. Is
there a trick to force this to happen so that you can apply the style you
want without both the wanted and unwanted styles applied to the type?
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Interesting. The style shows up as applied to the selected text when I view the styles tab of the inspector: the way I’ve always done it. Selecting the text and doing Style/Remove Styling does not remove the indication that the style is applied.
But when I open the styles/colors palette (never used before) and select the type nothing is highlighted, indicating the style has been cleared. So I think there is a FW bug with what shows up in the style tab of the inspector.
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