Reply To: Style problem when copying between Indesign docs

Larisa,

No, I don’t know how to fix this. I operate three newspapers each with distinct paragraph styles… but I had mine named the same. About 25% of our content appears in multiple publications so my team will copy content. When copying from one publication to the other I see it duplicate the paragraph style, but it has the same name.

Article Body Indent
Article Body Indent

As a workaround I changed my style names so that each has a single character to represent which publication that style came from. Now when someone copies content/styles I can fix things. I’ll check my paragraph styles and if I see two that are similar like this:

Article Body Indent – P
Article Body Indent – L

I’ll delete the erroneous one and this prompts me to select the style I want to have replace it.

I’d love to hear a better solution, but at least my workaround lets me maintain he proper formatting in three uniquely styled publications.