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• • October 26, 2011 at 6:00 pm #60918
    Matt Mayerchak

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    I have a magazine layout in CS5.5. On this file only, any text that has an override to a paragraph or character style applied shows a thick red strikethrough in layout mode. (Preview mode is fine). Any change – colorizing the text, kerning, font size – any change will cause the strikethrough to appear.

    I think this is how this started, but I can't be sure:

    I was using InDesign CS 5.0 and exported the file for Incopy. Unbeknownst to me, the editor was using InCopy 5.5. After updating the edited text in CS5, once I found out it was OK to use 5.5, I switched to using InDesign CS 5.5, and that is when the strikethroughs appeared.

    I have tried exporting to IDML and re-importing the file and it doesn't go away.

    Option-clicking a style will make it go away but that's a pain because it's an 80 page magazine and we need to be able to override styles while we're working – especially to add color to heads etc. We're not going to epub with it.

    Side note: I searched the keyboard shortcuts file to see if there was a command for showing or hiding overrides and found one called “Views, Navigation: Suppress overrides (view optimized)” I think this may refer to a button on the menu but I can't figure it out. Anybody know what this is and is it related to my view problem?

  • October 26, 2011 at 6:07 pm #60919
    Matt Mayerchak

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    p.s. I exported the IDML again and opened it in InDesign CS5.0 and the red strikethroughs are still there in CS 5.0 as well.

  • October 27, 2011 at 5:19 am #60922
    David Blatner

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    I wonder if perhaps you had run one of these scripts that always shows text overrides, such as ShowTextOverrides.jsx:

    https://in-tools.com/article/sc…..overrides/

    Or something having to do with composition highlighting?

    https://creativepro.com/fie…..ghting.php

  • October 27, 2011 at 7:14 am #60926
    Matt Mayerchak

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    I had already checked the composition highlighting, along with every preferenced dialog I could find. I do have the ShowTextOverrides script but did not run it . . . at least not intentionally. Anybody know how to disable this?

    

  • October 27, 2011 at 7:50 am #60928
    Matt Mayerchak

    Participant

    SOLVED.

    FYI here's what happened. I believe that while in CS5, I inadvertently ran the script to Show Text Overrides, without realizing it. Then, I switched to using CS5.5 for the job. Since I had not run the script in CS5.5, the menu item for Show/Hide Text Overrides was not showing in the Type Menu. I had to run the script again in 5.5 in order to have the menu item show up, and that allowed me to turn them off.

    Thanks to Jason Miranda for helping me figure it out on the Boston IDUG user group facebook page (and David, here).

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