Edits to paragraph styles not propagating to text in one text frame specifically

[Rich R]

I have a document with multiple text frames and multiple text styles. All text in the document belongs to at least a paragraph style, and some has both a paragraph and character style.

When I edit a paragraph style, that change affects all text with that style and any styles based on it that preserve that property in every frame except one (which also happens to be the largest text frame on my first page). After I edit the style, the text style in the problem frame now shows as [Paragraph style] + [previous formatting].

As an example, I've updated my Body style from 10pt font to 6pt and show some before & afters. The text on the left of the image is my problem frame, and the text on the right is one that works as expected (containing some text with the Body style and some with styles based on Body that preserve font size). The first two images are the problem frame text before the change, and the formatting shown in the Text Styles pane. The second two images are after the change.

I assume there's a property of the problem frame itself that causes this, though Nothing I've looked at seems to indicate this as a property.

[walt.farrell]

It would help to see screenshots with more detail. For example, we need to see the Context Toolbar as well as the complete frame, with the Frame Text Tool active and the cursor in the problem text. Or if you could provide a sample document, that would also be helpful.

[Rich R]

Sure thing...I'm not in a good environment to be taking screenshots, but the document is here. I'll share screenshots after I'm back in a place where I can take them.

rulesheetBoda-90x90.afpub

[MikeTO]

You have scaled the contents of the text frame by resizing the frame with the bottom-right outer handle (the content scaling handle) rather than the inner of those two handles. Double-click the solid blue outer handle to restore the frame's contents to 100%. You will then likely want to re-apply Body to all of the paragraphs formatted as such because they're all overridden with the font size.

Once you've made those changes, editing the Body style should work as expected.

[Rich R]

10 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

You have scaled the contents of the text frame by resizing the frame with the bottom-right outer handle (the content scaling handle) rather than the inner of those two handles. Double-click the solid blue outer handle to restore the frame's contents to 100%. You will then likely want to re-apply Body to all of the paragraphs formatted as such because they're all overridden with the font size.

Once you've made those changes, editing the Body style should work as expected.

Thank you so much! This had me running in circles for like a whole day... I'll try it soon as I can and report back.