I’m not sure. You wouldn’t believe the crap that comes through in Word files. I’ve had all kinds of weird paragraph and character styles come through.

I’m not sure. I know I hate importing Word documents.

What happens if you import it, apply your paragraph style, and then delete the Link character style and replace with none?

Is it just this one Word file or does it happen a lot? Something’s definitely right. I think (but not sure) that the “Link” character style in Word is used for URLs and web addresses. Don’t know why it’s affecting hyphenated words.

I’ve had weird things like that. I remember the time I imported a word file and entire sentences were the Link character style. Seems the author had copied and pasted some stuff from Web pages and it remained as a link when she pasted them into word.

If you applied character styles to the stuff that was supposed to be nested, then whatever you applied will override the nesting, I believe. If something is being nested, you don’t want to apply anything to them manually.

If the paragraph style with nesting worked the first time, all you should need to do is click anywhere in the paragraph and apply the paragraph style, and the nesting should do everything automatically.

I’ve had character styles applied and I’ve changed the paragraph to a different paragraph style sheet and it worked. But those characters styles were not used in nested stuff.

That sucks you had to manually apply the character style sheets.

I don’t do too much database importing as I usually used tagged text files.

That’s what I kind of thought :(

I can’t think of any way to avoid using a paragraph rule or anchoring like you’ve done.

What is the reason the designer wouldn’t be able to resize the text box? It looks like you have a text inset on all four sides, so I don’t know what the problem would be.

So far as posting images, I don’t think this forum supports embedding images.

I’ve always just copied and pasted the direct link to my image and put that in the post. Folks will simply have to click it

I don’t think there is a way to do it.

Personally though, I’ve never had to change just all even or just odd ones.

I suppose if there was a big demand for it, Adobe would have included it.

Maybe send them a feature request for the next version.

Unfortunately I am lousy at GREP, but I’m pretty good with search and replaces. I think you can accomplish what you want in three search and replaces.

1) Search for ^p^p^p and replace with ^p^p^p« (I used a French Quote mark but you can use anything that is not used elsewhere)

2) Search for that « (or whatever character you used) and in the replace field, just choose the style sheet you want and nothing else.

3) The paragraph will now be tagged, so all you need to do now is search for the « and replace with nothing. Be sure you “clear” the style sheet from the previous replace that you did.

I tried it real quick as a test because I was worried about local formatting on the newly styled paragraph, but they remain so you’ll be okay.

Hope that helps.

Or when you nest it you could do this:

1) None through one space
2) Bold through one letter
3) Repeat

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Now that I think about it, if you have a size such as XL, the above would not work. Or if they added spaces before the opening parenthesis.

If the line were to look like this:

MISSES: S (6-8), M (10-12), L (14-16), XL (23-24)

or this:

MISSES: S(6-8), M(10-12), L(14-16), XL(23-24)

Your nesting would be:

1) None through one space
2) Bold up to open parenthesis [type in the ( ]
3) Repeat

The spaces would also be bold, but I don’t think that should be an issue.