Try File > Import > Formats, and select paragraph and character tags, imported from Current. Then select the check box for When Importing, Remove Other Format/Layout Overrides. That should do what you want.
martha At 02:41 PM 4/7/2006, Karyn Hunt wrote: > I have some very old chapters from some very old books that I'm >selectively copying and pasting into some new books. The new books have >slightly different character tag settings (different indents and line >spacing) so I'm importing the new formats into all the old chapters as I >copy them in to the new books. Problem is, this old book had a whole lot >of overrides and when I see the paragraph tags in the new book (in the >paragraph tag field on the menu), the tag names have asterisks next to >and have not yet picked up the new settings. So I'm having to go back >and select each chunk of text and re-tag it with the same tag to make it >pick up the new settings. Is there some shortcut to quickly update them >all at once? -- Martha Jane {Kolman | Davidson} Dances With Words editrix at nemasys.com "Too many words bring about exhaustion." --Tao Te Ching, Chapter 5 (translated by Sheets/Tovey)