Imported text is assigned character style without being told to

[Rob SF]

I beg folks' indulgence as I keep coming up against mysteries upon mysteries. Can anyone tell me why text from a Word file into a text frame whose default styles are "Body" for paragraph and "No style" for character, would default to an "Italic" character style for all the text that comes in?

Maybe another thread sometime on why I had to create an "Italic" character style in the first place, but for now I'd just like to know why imported text is character styled "Italic" rather than remaining unstyled.

Thanks.

 

[walt.farrell]

11 minutes ago, Rob SF said:

Maybe another thread sometime on why I had to create an "Italic" character style in the first place, but for now I'd just like to know why imported text is character styled "Italic" rather than remaining unstyled.

That should indicate that the text in Word was also styled. The styles assigned to the original text are used for the imported text.

Can you share the Word document?

[Old Bruce]

6 minutes ago, Rob SF said:

Can anyone tell me why text from a Word file into a text frame whose default styles are "Body" for paragraph and "No style" for character, would default to an "Italic" character style for all the text that comes in?

There are many different ways to achieve this unwanted result.

Are you Placing the file, or are you doing a copy from Word and pasting into Publisher?

Regardless, you may have the Italic character style selected when you Place/Paste the file. I notice that the screenshot with the text has [No Style] for the paragraph style and Italic for the Character Style. Before you Place/Paste the Document/Text you should have both Paragraph and Character [No Style] chosen.

[Rob SF]

9 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

That should indicate that the text in Word was also styled. The styles assigned to the original text are used for the imported text.

Can you share the Word document?

The Word document paragraphs had a "Body" paragraph style (with line spacing altered from default, but that shouldn't have made any difference when imported into Publisher, right?), and no character styles.

 

[Rob SF]

9 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

There are many different ways to achieve this unwanted result.

Are you Placing the file, or are you doing a copy from Word and pasting into Publisher?

Regardless, you may have the Italic character style selected when you Place/Paste the file. I notice that the screenshot with the text has [No Style] for the paragraph style and Italic for the Character Style. Before you Place/Paste the Document/Text you should have both Paragraph and Character [No Style] chosen.

I placed the file, didn't copy and paste text. If you look at the first screenshot, you'll see there is no character style. That shows up only once the text has been placed. See my reply to Walt regarding the styles in the original Word doc.

[MikeTO]

I just tried it with my own Word file and couldn't duplicate it, with and without existing italic formatting in Publisher. I think we'll need to see a test documents for Publisher and Word to figure this out. We don't need everything, just a Publisher document with the text frame and the Word document with a single paragraph of text.

Cheers

[Rob SF]

This morning, after cleaning out a lot of unused styles, I'm unable to duplicate the problem. Which is embarrassing, but I'll probably be back with another unduplicatable problem later, because that's the life of a noob.

As I began with this thread . . . I beg your indulgence. And forgiveness. And patience.