Eugene… Thanks for you help… before I start playing with changing the en space glyph…. I'm having now ANOTHER issue….

When I apply the style I have created for bullet points different text boxes don't take on the styles character. It does the bullets but for what ever reason doesn't want to take on any of the character attributes contain in the style. Is there a way to force/override a style? I don't understand why it insists on a different font. In one text box I'll have three lines and all three lines have different font attributes. Doesn't check out…. What am I doing wrong?

You're right!  I had character styles carried over when I pasted the other text boxes from the previous document. It seem to be favoring those styles over the paragraph style.

Is it normal for character styles to override paragraph styles? 

Oh.. and the glyph thing just went away. Not sure what happened but it must have been something funky in the character styles I deleted. 

@Eugene Tyson: This worked! Thank you!

BUT now I have another issue. I've defined bullets within that same paragraph style and the space automatic space created between the bullet and the type is pink, as if there is a font violation. Any idea's?

The space is defined as an “en space (^>)”. Not sure why it would give me that error/highlight.

@Jongware:  Thanks for the help!

I have to say that you guys all ROCK! Thanks for all the input.

So let me get this straight. Each “chapter” should be it's own file. Once all the chapters are completed, I should bring all the files/chapters together under the “book” umbrella. Now, here's my question. Do I set up each chapters' master pages as usual, minus the page & chapter numbers? Do I actually set where I want thepage & chapter numbers within the “book” file? I'm sorry if this sounds like a dumb question but I honestly haven't worked with “books”.

I might have to study up on this part. I really want to set this document up the right way from the beginning. I used Q2ID to import all the previous files from Quark into InDesign. It did a pretty good job but there's still a lot of work to be done. Especially when the over all look (headers/sub-heads/footers) will all change.

Thanks!

I have to say that you guys all ROCK!  Thanks for all the input.

So let me get this straight. Each “chapter” should be it's own file. Once all the chapters are completed, I should bring all the files/chapters together under the “book” umbrella. Now, here's my question. Do I set up each chapters' master pages as usual, minus the page & chapter numbers? Do I actually set where I want thepage & chapter numbers within the “book” file?  I'm sorry if this sounds like a dumb question but I honestly haven't worked with “books”.

I might have to study up on this part. I really want to set this document up the right way from the beginning. I used Q2ID to import all the previous files from Quark into InDesign. It did a pretty good job but there's still a lot of work to be done. Especially when the over all look (headers/sub-heads/footers) will all change.

Thanks! 

I'll probably stick to separate files. One file per chapter. It's a “parts” type catalog. Very heavy with images, descriptions and small part lists. Each chapter will have their own master pages and although the master page layout is similar in structure, the colors and titles change from chapter to chapter. 

@Eugene T:  I know what “chapter variables” sort of do but I'm having a hard time trying to justify the use. Being the changes on he Master happen across the board. Can you give me any examples/insight into the use of “Chapter variables”. Thanks!

PS-> In case anyone is interested in the type of catalog, here is a link to the PDF of the last one. 

BTX Catalog – download 

~erick

Thanks guys for your input.

I think I'm just going to use Font Doctor to clean everything up, as is, without any conversion, and then reimport a clean set. I haven't done this in a long while so it's probably best I do it before the next big project comes around. I'll probably purchase OTF fonts from this point forward and try to rebuild my collection entirely in the OTF format. 

~erick