Reply To: Roman text importing as italic

Here’s what I’ve done (which is my process for dozens of books done in the past):
I imported the text without mapping styles.
I ran a search and replace to find all italic text and replace with an italic character style.
I then applied the body text style to all the text via control+A. (I format the chapter number and header later using GREP find and change.)
Usually that does the trick and if I see there are problems, I clear the overrides (this is a straight text kids novel).

What is happening here is that character style is applying to text that wasn’t italic to begin with!
When I select the text, it has the italic character style applied to it AND the paragraph style has a plus. When I clear the override, it just changes the font (all italic text is coming out in Times New Roman instead of the font I chose) but remains italic.