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I'm editing text for a book, and after I'm done, the new text boxes apply the text and font styles I used before, and make it difficult for me to reformat. Sometimes turning off text style is enough, but sometimes [No style] is not enough. There are times when parameters like No wrap or Superscript are left on, and I could go on and on. 

Where could I turn off the option to use a raw style for new text and textboxes, instead of inheriting previous styles, colors and others?

 

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Possibly Edit > Defaults > Revert (or the Toolbar gear icon with the red bar, image.png.34eb57fa2f75b2b8ae5b77ab13be570c.png) would help.

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It might be a good idea to read the Object Defaults help topic to better understand how this feature works; in particular that it saves defaults separately for various object types, & the differences for reverting, saving, & factory resetting each of them.

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On 10/30/2023 at 9:05 PM, walt.farrell said:

Possibly Edit > Defaults > Revert (or the Toolbar gear icon with the red bar, image.png.34eb57fa2f75b2b8ae5b77ab13be570c.png) would help.

I've just tried this with TOC (because it takes over the formatting of titles, I don't know why). As soon as I pressed it, the text formatting went back to the default, but it lost the TOC fields. :/

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18 minutes ago, mykee said:

I've just tried this with TOC (because it takes over the formatting of titles, I don't know why). As soon as I pressed it, the text formatting went back to the default, but it lost the TOC fields. :/

Sorry, but I have no idea what you mean. Screenshots or a sample document?

From your prior info in the topic you'd use that button immediately after creating a Text Frame, before you add any text to it.

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Here is the screenshot. In the other thread, we talked about having hidden text, and I set it to 1 pt, plus 0 pt line-height. I generated a TOC from it and got this. Hooray. It's getting frustrating in Publisher that it inherits the style when adding a new element.

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If I press the Revert Defaults button, I get the text fine without formatting, but then it doesn't work as a TOC, but as plain text.

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Okay, now I've tried it: if I press the button after adding the empty text frame and then generate a TOC, the letter will be correct. Annoying, but I'll try to pay attention to that from now on.

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