Reply To: Char Styles: change JUST the font to default

Thanks for your reply, Jake. Either I didn’t describe my issue clearly, or I’m not quite following your suggestions.

Assume that I have, say, a Para Style called “Body” and a child style called “Body First”. They differ only in that Body First has no first line indent. The point size in Body First is not set, so it follows any changes I make in Body.

Then a gremlin explicitly sets the point size in Body First to 24 points. Now if I change the point size in Body, it is no longer inherited by Body First.

What I need to do is “delete” the explicit point size in Body First so it again inherits Point Size from its parent, Body.

The earlier part of this thread revealed that you can clear an explicit font family setting (an over-ride of the parent setting, in effect) by using BACKSPACE to delete the local setting (in Body First) — but deleting the setting by other means doesn’t remove the setting. I’m hoping that there is some similar secret way of deleting an explicit Point Size — or any other setting in a child style — so it will revert to being inherited from the parent.

From your reply, it sounds like you may have been able to do this, but I wasn’t clear as to the exact steps. I’ve tried everything, but the only recourse I can find is to completely recreate the child style anew, leaving out the Point Size value. In the case of numerous or complex styles, this is a substantial inconvenience.

Thanks again,

Allen