Hello,

I recently joined a team of instructional designers as a lead editor and writer. They have a LOT of extant course documents already in place and a variety of custom templates they are based on.
There is a most peculiar condition. In all these files, if I put my cursor in the text of any variety of styles (visually) the display box will show a Char2 as the style in play. That style is defined as chartreuse 16 pt verdana, which would be very obvious. I do not see this style actually rendered anywhere in the document, it just seem to lurk in the labeling.

All of the existing templates base their styles on "Normal" which I do not like. I am making a new series which base on "No style" and then build from there on Body Text and Heading 1 etc. That's another thread perhaps.

I have tried to remove this Char2 from the available styles (sometimes it thinks it is in use, sometimes not) and it appears to go away. But as soon as any style is adjusted in anyway Char2 will jump back in the list. It acts like "Underlying default character style" almost.

Also, if I have a clean document based on my own new template and I just copy/paste-special unformatted text from one of these other documents it introduces this Char2 malarky into my document. That one is really puzzling.

Any thoughts on the how to eradicate this rogue style and how to prevent if from coming back?

I have tried doing a Open>Repair on the template and on the document, but I think there is too much of it out everywhere I turn.

thank-you kindly for any helpful suggestions.

don