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Editing, clearing, and redefining styles - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2025 Essential Training
Editing, clearing, and redefining styles
- [Instructor] Now that we've talked about creating and applying paragraph and character styles, you need to know how to edit them. But first, let me talk about style overrides. I'm going to go to the layout menu and choose previous spread. Now I'll choose my type tool and click in this paragraph over here. When I open my paragraph styles panel in the doc, you can see something interesting, a little plus symbol right next to the style name, the one that's highlighted. In fact, anywhere I click inside this paragraph, I'll still see that plus sign showing up in the panel. That plus sign means there's formatting on top of the paragraph style, something different than the style itself. This is called a local override, and in fact, if you hover your cursor over that style, you'll see a little tool tip that shows you what the override is. Here it says the size in the letting has been changed. You can make local formatting or local overrides more obvious by clicking this little a plus button…
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