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• • April 13, 2011 at 7:30 am #59241
    marxid

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    Hi there,

    I am having a style sheet problem, basically (this is one example, there are several blocks of copy with style sheets applied but it makes no difference what I choose) I copy some text from one document that was set a while ago and the style sheet is formatted correctly with 'UK English' set in the 'Advanced Character Formats' setting, and when I copy it to a brand new document, everything comes over but the style sheet has a '+' next to it and the override is it has been set to 'US English'.

    I have looked everywhere in the document settings, all the style sheet settings in both documents and there is nothing that I can see wrong. I also had a problem while I was testing it to see what would happen, when I copied the text over, the formatting was fine (apart from the 'USA English' setting) so I copied it back into the source document and the font defaulted to 'Times Bold', it kept all the other formatting except the font, once again, I have looked at all the formatting options, the 'Basic' paragragh style is fine and nothing is based on it either way.

    This does not happen when I set 2 new docs with new styles an copy one to another so I exported the source doc as an INX to strip any corruption that may be in there but it still has no effect.

    This is really doing my head in because I can usually solve style sheet problems if any occur but this has me baffled, if anyone know what this could be and how I can fix it, I would be very grateful. One thought was that the docs were originally created in CS3 and I am working in CS4, or maybe whoever installed the software chose US english as the language, I'm just not sure.

  • April 13, 2011 at 8:44 am #59243
    Anonymous

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    Check to see if the Paragraph Style for the UK dictionary is “Based on – Basic Paragraph” if it is then remove this from the style.

  • April 13, 2011 at 9:00 am #59245
    marxid

    Member

    Thanks for the reply Eugene but none of my styles are based on the 'Basic' paragraph style. It's really odd.

  • April 13, 2011 at 2:50 pm #59250
    Alan Gilbertson

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    I'd take a wild guess that CS4 was installed using the US English setting, and CS3 with International English setting. I don't have multiplie suite copies with the different settings to test this out, but I could see ID forcing the change when the copy is imported from an International English install to a US English install. If I recall correctly, there were odd issues with International English versions during the prerelease testing of CS4 products (fixed prior to launch, I'm pretty sure), so there are obviously some obscure-but-significant internal differences depending on which option you choose during the installation.

    The simplest workaround is probably to just go ahead and bring in everything you're going to be working with, then do a global Find/Change targeting that specific formatting setting. Save the query for reuse as needed, since you'll likely be wanting it again, by the sound of things.

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