Optical margin alignment not in Indesign cc

When I open Story it is blank. There is no box to activate optical margin alignment. And there does not seem to be a way to activate it in Preferences. Are other users having the same problem or is this just me?
James

Try: Troubleshooting 101: Replace, or "trash" your InDesign preferences
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/526990

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Maybe I'm missing something here, but I can't figure out the sense of having Optical Margin Alignment at "Story" level.
I have a layout with a story that runs across several pages. Within that story (and in any given text frame), I have large headlines, medium-sized introductory paragraphs and/or pull quotes, and the body text. There appears to be no way of setting a type size to control the optical alignment for each paragraph. If I set the type size (in Story options) to the size of the body copy (say, 9pt), it isn't enough to make a difference to the headlines (say, 24pt). Obviously if I set the type size to 24pt it makes a total mess of the body copy. How many layouts only have one type size per story? Surely this hanging punctuation option needs to be at para level?

Can you switch off Optical alignment in the paragraph styles in CS2
or only CS3 and above?
Even still, I think this is worthy of a feature (amendment) request.
I'm not surprised it has been mentioned before!
Having used Quark for years, I found InDesign so much better from
version 2 (pre-CS) onwards, but this is just frustrating and so not
like Adobe, whose products I generally rate as well-rounded and well
conceived. Oh well, guess I'll just have to do my hanging
quote marks manually… until CS5?

Optical Margin Alignment in Paragraph Styles?

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I'm currently redesigning a newsletter for a company. I have been setting up various Paragraph Styles for different areas of text. Is there any way that I can use the Optical Margin Alignment tool in a Paragraph Style so that all text applied to that style uses the same Optical Margin Alignment setting? I'd rather not have to manually select every single piece of text and set it that way.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Laurence

Hi Steve,
Yes, I thought that would be the case. I've read everywhere that it can only be "ignored" in Paragraph Styles. I'm still learning InDesign in some respect, so could you explain to me what you mean when you say "at the level of a story"?
Also, is there any rule of thumb for using the Optical Margin Alignment with text? Or is it a simple case of trial and error until you get good results?

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I'm using Win Indesign CC 2014.
I would like one paragraph to have optical margin alignment. But I would like all the rest to not have it.
It seems as though if I turn it on, that it applies optical margin alignment to the whole document.
Is there any way to have it apply to just selected paragraphs, or have I just missed something?
Thanks,
Phil

There is no way to select a single paragraph and apply Optical Margin Alignment to it, OMA is a story-wide setting.
That said, funny enough (if you are inclined to think of such weird "design" decisions as "funny", ha ha), the reverse is possible: a paragraph and/or paragraph style can be set to ignore OMA. Look in the paragraph/style Alignment subdialog, there should be a checkbox.

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See this article for explanation:
http://www.cambooth.net/archives/328

Hi Matthew,
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With some work, you might be able to produce a similar effect manually, using a workaround patterned on the one described in that article.
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