Turns out this style was built as a copy of a style that had embedded
styles in it. Doy! Cleared those and all of the correct paragraph
attributes magically appeared. Yay.

-----Original Message-----
From: InDesign Talk [mailto:indesign@lists.lassosoft.com] On Behalf Of
David W Creighton
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 1:54 PM
To: InDesign Talk
Subject: [KEYWORD] - Re: ID not applying paragraph style's set color

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathe Todd" <Kathe-T@audioeditions.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 4:11 PM



> Here's a weird one: I have a paragraph style called "Laydown" that is
> set to a character color of red, and an Object Style with the same
name
> that says text in the box is supposed to be the Laydown paragraph
style.
> And so it is; but the text is coming out black, not red (though font,
> size, etc. are as set in the style). I tried typing some text in the
> Normal paragraph style and then coloring it blue, then changing it to
> the Laydown style. The little window showing what overrides were
applied
> appeared when I hovered my mouse over the + beside the style name in
the
> Paragraph Styles palette. One of those overrides was that the color
was
> blue. I selected, "Apply Style, Clear Overrides" from the context menu
> and the text changed color - to black. Can't seem to get it to apply
the
> correct color to text set in this style. Any ideas?
>
> Kathe Todd


Check to see if there is a character style applied that may be
overriding
your paragraph style.

Dave
iDexter.com


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