Paragraph styles indesign

assigned font in paragraph style does not assign to test when style is applied

just checked and there was a character style. Not sure how I did that one. Thank you very much.

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Setting default paragraph style (InDesign CS4, AppleScript)

I'm trying to set the default paragraph style to [Basic Paragraph], but this produces an error.
Setting other styles does work, what's wrong with "[Basic Paragraph]"?
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS4"
tell active document
tell text defaults
set applied paragraph style to "[Basic Paragraph]"
end tell
end tell
end tell
Thanks,
Peter

Alternatively you could use:
set applied character style of text defaults to character style 1
set applied paragraph style of text defaults to paragraph style 1
Cheers
Tobias

InDesign CC is bringing in style sheets from Word and other places that I copy type from, like email, Acrobat. In InDesign CS4, whenever I brought in text from outside it assumed the paragraph style applied to the waiting text box. The loss of this functi

I used to be able to get text from a Word doc (copy it), and then go into my CS4 InDesign file and paste it into a waiting box that had a paragraph style assigned to it and boom, it would take on the assigned paragraph style of that text box. Now it brings in the style from wherever the text came from. If the font looks similar to what was there it can be too hard to tell that it's different. When you are working on a book with 200 pages and copying text from Word docs and dropping it in here and there in InDesign, it causes alot of extra work and problems.
In fact I have lost alot of security functions I used to have in CS4 in CC2014 in InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat and it is making me want to go back to CS4 in a hurry.

I actually FINALLY found the answer!!!! In the preferences area you choose Clipboard Handling and then you choose "Text Only" under When Pasting Text and Tables from Other Applications (see photo).

Paragraph styles applied to forms created in InDesign

Paragraph styles which I have applied to text fields of forms created in InDesign seem to work well in Acrobat Pro, except styles relating to bulleted and numbered lists. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? What is the solution, if any?

I believe that if you name the form field the same name on multiple pages they should fill with the same values.
However, I'm not a form expert. You would do well to ask these questions in the Acrobat Forms forum here:
Forms
While InDesign is being used to create the form, it doesn't really control the process. This is done in Acrobat so that's where you should ask your technical questions.

Tagging character styles and paragraph styles in inDesign

I'm working on a complex book in which everything on the pages is styled.
I've been asked to tag the vocabulary terms in the text, so that the correct page number shows up in the index.
I've been asked to tag the folios as well, for the table of contents.
The folios are a paragraph style.
The vocabulary terms are styled with a character style.
How do I do this?
Any help much appreciated.

InDesign's built-in Table of Contents function picks up text based on paragraph styles. I'm not sure you really men, though, that you want to pick up the folios, if you are using the term as I understand it, to mean the page numbers. You really want to pick up the various headings used to identify the topics or titles. ID will supply the page numbers.
As for the indexing, there may be a script that can find text with a particular character style assigned and add it to an index (you should ask over in the scripting forum: InDesign Scripting) but you should also read the Help on Indexes and learn more about how they operate.

InDesign CS4 - Paragraph Style - Justification not applying

Hello,
I am in college and Indesign is the software we use for our projects. The version we have is CS4. This is the second project where I've had an issue with the justification. I can use the justification icons at the top to move the text where I want it after applying the paragraph style, but this causes the little override + to show up and that's not allowed. My instructor says we should use the style itself. I'm happy to do that and have found the justification area in the paragraph style setup, however, no matter what justification I specify (with the text highlighted and preview enabled), the text does not move. I've also set it, applied it then gotten back to the document just in case it was a preview-only error but it still doesn't change.
Do I need to justify everything THEN apply the paragraph style to get around this? If the justify option in the paragraph style settings doesn't actually move the text, what is it's intended purpose?
Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Do you mean this justification tab?
If so, I think it's purpose is to set the behavior of how single-word paragraphs are displayed when full justification is applied. In the previous screen shot, the third line of the paragraph is a single word (Obitatur), and all of the text is set to Full Justify (if you hover your cursor over the justification icons at the top of the screen, it's the one that reads: Justify all lines). Here, you can see that all of the letters are justified across the text frame, because Single Word Justification is set to Full Justify. Here are a few other examples:

How to get all paragraphs style and their fonts of a indesign file and write all info with para info into txt file with scripting

how to get all how to get all paragraphs style and their fonts of a indesign file and write all info with para info into txt file with scriptingstyle and their fonts of a indesign file and write all info with para info into txt file with scripting

I write the script this one works
          var par=doc.stories.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().getElements();
for(var i=par.length-1;i>=0;i--)
       var font=par[i].appliedParagraphStyle.name;
        var font1=par[i].appliedFont.name;
         var size=par[i].pointSize;
        WriteToFile (par[i].contents +   "\r" + "Style : " + font + "\r" + "FONT1 : " + font1 + "\r" + "Size : " + size + "\r", reportFilePath);
                        function WriteToFile(text, reportFilePath) {
    file = new File(reportFilePath);
    file.encoding = "UTF-8";
    if (file.exists) {
        file.open("e");
        file.seek(0, 2);
    else {
        file.open("w");
      file.writeln(text);
    file.close();
Thanks for all your support

Trouble with CS5 InDesign Paragraph Styles

I am creating a new template. I want one style to be "TOC Title", and another to be "TOC Level 1". All my concerns center around the Paragraph Style Options window (Type > Paragraph Styles > Create New Style >(double-click style to modify) )
1. No matter what I do, if I stipulate that "TOC Level 1" has leading (Tabs option, enter a "." or period in the Leader box), then InDesign does this for ALL my paragraph styles.
For the record, under the General option, my "Based On" box is set to "[No Paragraph Style]" for both paragraph styles.
So either I have to live with the TOC title having leading on it, or the TOC Level 1 having none, and in either case having to do something manually to the TOC everytime I use the template.
How can I fix this so that TOC Title has no Leader and TOC Level 1 has a Leader of "." ?
2. How can I set my TOC Title paragraph style so that it centers on the page?
Edit: Two days later and no reply - I would have gladly supplied more information if I did not make the issue clear enough, and I would have even appreciated a simple "Sorry, I don't know." Since it is highly improbable that nobody out there knows ANYTHING about Paragraph Style tabs in Adobe CS5 InDesign, I must conclude that my issue is simply not "in" enough to be considered worthy of attention from the unnamed scores of elitists which must run this forum.

I think the only way I'm going to be able to understand the problem is to see a sample file. Please make a sample, even if it has nothing more than your style definitions that are failing, and post a link to it here.

InDesign Paragraph Style won't apply / change

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Im hoping someone might be able to help me troubleshoot an InDesign question. Im a beginner-to-intermediate user.
I am unable to apply my Paragraph Style to a number of my text boxes. I have tried holding Opt/Alt while choosing the PS with no luck. I have also checked for local overrides and character styles, and there appear to be none. The fly-out menu from the Paragraph Styles menu is almost all greyed-out, so it won't let me select the Clear Overrides option.
However, when I double-click the text box to go into the frame, I am able to select the text directly and then apply the paragraph style to it directly inside the frame. This seems weird; Im hoping there's a way that I can just select the frames normally and apply a paragraph style as usual.
The text came from a Word document that was flowed into each chapter, if that gives any help.
Looking forward to some advice. Cheers, -Ben

P Spier, thank you very much. What is the work around then to achieve this? Simply selecting all the text in all of the threaded frames and applying the Paragraph Style directly to them? Is it possible to select all of the threaded frames at the same time and apply the Paragraph Style to it? Advice for best method of practice is much appreciated.

InDesign cs5 keeps crashing whenever I try to alter the footnote formatting via Type Document Footnote Option or Paragraph Styles using Span Columns

InDesign cs5 crashes whenever I try to alter the footnote formatting by going to Type > Document Footnote Option > and then I try to select a Paragraph style I've already set up. The Paragraph style I need to use includes Span Columns, which I think may be the issue. I think this because when I then I tried to create a new document and re-import the styles, it won't even let me add Span Columns feature to the Paragraph Style in question.
I can send screen shots of everything (e.g. dialog boxes) if that would be helpful in understanding the issue I'm having.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks.

It does require running a script to accomplish what you want. Here's the one usually recommended:
http://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/footnotes_columns.html
Here are instructions for installing scripts:
How to Install a Script in InDesign That You Found in a Forum or ...

I am running InDesign CC. Every time I try to redefine a paragraph style, it crashes. It's just start doing it and I have had CC for a few months. Any suggestions? Thank you

I am running InDesign CC. Every time I try to redefine a paragraph style, it crashes. It's just start doing it and I have had CC for a few months. Any suggestions? Thank you

Do you mean Toolkit or TypeKit, which is part of CC? See Remove minor corruption by exporting. If that doesn't work, try exporting the text to ID Tagged Text and place in a new file, and if that also fails, try removing the fonts.

InDesign Contact Sheet paragraph styles

I am trying to use the InDesign contact sheet, and I have figured out how to edit the script to adjust the paragraph styles. However, I have only been able to affect the entire text frame. I would like to have it so that the XMP description label is bold and the metadata is regular. Is it possible to alter the font style of just the label in the script? Thanks!

Sorry, no way to do that.
Bob

Problem applying Paragraph styles in CS4 InDesign

I boughtCS4 InDesign for Windows perhaps six months ago, and it worked fine with Windows XP. I have recently installed Windows 7 and find that the paragraph styles won't always work. Of ten when I try to use the shortcut for paragraph style the paragraph in question turns pink with small squares in it. If I undo the application of paragraph styles it goes back to text. I am using Times New Roman as the major font. However, I have tried other fonts and they won't work in paragraph style either.
I tried changing several pages of the manuscript to Times New Roman Special G1, but it won't do the commas, quotes, etc. (special characters).
Has anyone else had this problem? What can I do to fix this mess?
Thanks for any help.
Earl Davis

Well, here's the situation now. But before describing it, let me thank Peter
Spier and Bob Levine who have endeavored to help me. Now, here's where we
are:
I copied a document over from Pagemaker into InDesign using Times New Roman
font. (I did the same for two other book manuscripts this past summer,
shortly after purchasing InDesign and had no problem). Suddenly a couple
weeks ago I found that the shortcut I set for the paragraph styles did not
format the paragraphs, etc., but rather turned the paragraph in which I
placed the cursor into a series of pink squares highlighted in pink. I have
tried the suggestions you fellows have given, such as copying the fonts
presently in the Windows Font Directory into the Adobe/InDesign/Fonts
directory, and then right-clicking on them and installing them. By the way,
the InDesign font directory only had the Times New Roman and Times New Roman
Special 1 and Renaissance font in it, until I copied all my fonts there and
installed them. Another oddity, I make the first letter of the first
paragraph of each chapter a decorative Renaissance font, spanning two lines.
I now find that when I do that, I may get a black square, which may turn
into the correct font after I adjust the size to two lines.
But on the general problem, I have tried changing the font in the
paragraph styles to Amerigo BT, and I sometimes get the shortcut to work,
and sometimes it still turns it into Times New Roman Special or black
squares. Also, I have opened a new file and put another copy of the text in
it, setting up the paragraph styles, etc. and still have the same problem.
So I'm at a loss what to do. I do think it's possible I am doing
something wrong with fonts or setting up the paragraph styles, but I don't
see any errors there. All my computer fonts show up in the fonts panel of
the document. Any more ideas?

Help! InDesign CS4 Unused Paragraph Styles Alert message

Below is the script that I have download from Adobe Forum.
This script deletes all the unused paragraphstyles from active document in InDesign CS4.
I want to modify this script to show only alert message for unused style and save report as a text file.
I don't want to remove my unused style from my active document.
Please help.
var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var myParStyles = myDoc.paragraphStyles;
var myCharStyles = myDoc.characterStyles;
for (j = myParStyles.length-1; j >= 2; j-- ) {
removeUnusedParaStyle(myParStyles[j]);
for (i = myCharStyles.length-1; i >= 1; i-- ){
removeUnusedCharStyle(myCharStyles[i]);
function removeUnusedParaStyle(myPaStyle) {
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findTextPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = myPaStyle;
var myFoundStyles = myDoc.findText();
if (myFoundStyles == 0) {
myPaStyle.remove();
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
} function removeUnusedCharStyle(myChStyle) {
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = myChStyle;
var myFoundStyles = myDoc.findText();
if (myFoundStyles == 0) {
myChStyle.remove();
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
}a

Hi,
Thanks for your reply. It helps to show only single paragraph style on alert box.
But if I have changed the code write(myPaStyle.name) to $.writeln(myPaStyle.name) then it shows unused style one by one on alert message.
Is anybody know how to save this message into text file in computer?
And also how to show all unused styles together on alert dialog message.
Please let me know.

Problème raccourcis clavier dans les styles de paragraphe de Indesign CC

Bonjour,
Je constate que la case pour introduire un raccourcis clavier dans les style de paragraphe de Indesign CC sous macintosh ne marche pas. On peut rentre dans la case, un curseur s'affiche mais ne prend aucune forme de raccourci clavier.
Avez vous une explication ?
Merci d'avance
Dam's

Je crois que j'ai trouvé d'où vient le problème (cf aide indesign) :
Pour ajouter un raccourci clavier, placez le point d’insertion dans la zone Raccourci et assurez-vous que le verrouillage numérique est activé. Maintenez une combinaison de touches Alt, Maj et Ctrl (Windows) ou Option, Maj et Commande (Mac OS) enfoncée, puis appuyez sur un chiffre du pavé numérique. Vous ne pouvez pas utiliser de lettres ni de nombres hors du pavé numérique pour définir des raccourcis de style. Si votre clavier ne comporte pas une touche de verrouillage numérique, vous ne pouvez pas ajouter de raccourcis clavier aux styles.
Sans pavé numérique point de salut...
C'est idiot car je n'ai pas l'habitude de faire des combinaison de chiffres. Je ferai plutôt des raccourcis du type : cmd+maj+(une_lettre)
Bon hé bien tant pis c'est une vraie perte de temps...

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