Scott Meyers wrote:
Jim Allan wrote:
My technique depends on the fact that, at least for me, this normally
doesn’t matter. I can normally change a style to red color from
automatic color, and then change it back to automatic
My point is that you can't do this. Once you've selected something,
there's no way (short of editing an XML file) to reset that character
feature to automatic. The best you can do is set it to whatever the
default currently is and then hope you never decide to change the default.
...
That's not entirely correct, although the interface is obscure enough
that there's no shame in missing it.
On the style definition dialog, at the bottom, there is a button labeled
"Standard". Clicking that button will remove the style properties set by
that tab of the dialog.
E.g. create a new character style based on "Default", call it "_CS". Set
Font Effects > Font Color: Bright Red, and Background: Yellow. Apply it
to some text--the result should be hard to miss.
Now modify the _CS style again: select the Background tab and click
"Standard", then OK.
The text with that style should go back to the default background, but
keep it's red font color.
Note that this is not the same as simply setting Background: No fill.
The "Standard" button removes from the style definition any properties
set by the current tab, allowing those properties to be inherited from
whatever ancestor has set them.
If you set some text properties in the "Default" paragraph style and
experiment with the _CS character style, you can confirm that this is
what happens.
You can see what properties a style sets by looking at the list on the
"Organizer" tab of the style definition dialog.
<Joe
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