Did you ever accidentally include a color when you created a character style, so you need to go back to 
 (“Ignore”), but you don’t want to recreate/reapply the character style? It’s easy to do, but the method is a bit obscure.
Here’s the trick: In the Character Styles panel, right-click on the style and choose Edit. In the Character Color settings, the swatch applied by the style will be highlighted. Command/Ctrl-click on the swatch. That’s it!
Before:
After:
This works because Command/Ctrl-clicking adds or removes something from a list in InDesign. If you have a list of 10 paragraph styles, you can Command/Ctrl-click on three of them (they don’t have to be next to each other), then deselect one by Command/Ctrl-clicking on it.
So in this case, you can Command/Ctrl-click on the color to deselect it from the list, leaving you with nothing in the list, which = “Ignore.”
This article was last modified on April 11, 2023
This article was first published on March 4, 2009
Commenting is easier and faster when you're logged in!
Recommended for you
Making a Character Style Change Only the Tint of Your Text
I wrote an article a while back about how to change the color of a character sty...
Conditional Styling Rules for InDesign
With this plug-in you can define conditions for automatically applying paragraph...
Rotating Text with a Character Style
Learn the trick for applying character rotation with a style, something that's u...