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Clearing overrides in multiple table cells

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    • August 27, 2012 at 7:15 pm #62991
      fewixree
      Member

      Hi everyone!

      Hope someone here can help me find a faster way of doing this. I am redesigning a 100 page Indesign catalogue. As the new design is completely different to the old one, I am starting a new Indesign document, copy and pasting text from the old doc to the new doc. Paragraph styles set in the old doc were simply override by highlighting the text and using the 'Clear All Overrides' function in the right-click menu. No dramas here. However there are a lot of tables that I have to copy across, which has different paragraph styles within each cell from the old doc. I realise that I can still override each cell individually, but not all at once. I tried highlighting all the cells in a table and right click, no 'Clear All Overrides' function there :(

      There are a lot of tables that I have to copy across, and most of them have 20 rows x 10 columns… I am hoping there is a faster way to override the styles than highlighting each individual cells and overriding them that way. HEEEEEEELP!!

    • August 28, 2012 at 4:23 am #62999
      mac grunt
      Member

      G'day

      By 'overrides' do you mean that a paragraph styles has been applied and then a change has been made to the text so that it no longer matches the original paragraph style?

      If so, then you need my handy InDesign tip : #03.

      Go to Find/Change

      Make sure Find what and Change to are both blank

      Set Find Format and Change Format to your paragraph style

      (make sure you change your Search field if you don't want it to do the whole document)

      Hit Change All

      Hope that's what you're looking for

      m.

    • August 28, 2012 at 6:32 am #63001
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Also, I would think that you could assign the paragraph styles in a cell style, then (after applying the cell style) choose Clear Attributes Not Defined by Style in the Cell Styles panel menu. Hm. Haven't tried it yet, but it seems like that could work.

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