Reply To: Character Styles Question…

Ok guys, I think I’m missing something, somewhere…

In my post above I was able to get the letters of the size range to become bold, change fonts, sizes, etc. I accomplished this by manually typing in a “fake” copy block with sizes and then highlighting the size range and applying the paragraph style I created. That worked.

When I bring it in from the database, I ran into an issue where all of the size names / size ranges were bold in the same font.

So I started from scratch:

1. Created a brand new blank document.
2. Created all of the Character styles needed for a normal spread
3. Created the “bold letter” Paragraph style
4. Made sure that “NONE” was selected in character styles, and “BASIC PARAGRAPH” was selected in Paragraph styles.
5. Typed out a full item description (using the default font – which was Times Roman 12pt)
6. Copied that block of text so that I had two exact copies on the page.

Then I went through the first copy block, highlighted certain pieces of text and applied all of my character styles that I had created. Everything looked and acted like it was suppose too….UNTIL I tried to highlight the size range and apply the paragraph style…nothing happened. The “size letters” didn’t bold.

On the second copy block I left it at the default font (times roman 12pt) and only highlighted the “size range” and then applied the paragraph style….and it worked. It changed all the “size letters” to bold, changed the font from Times Roman 12pt to Arno Pro 8pt / Bold.

So what am i doing wrong that it won’t change the font bold after it’s been formatted with a character style?