[Dwayne Smith]

Aah, it caught you too Jeff :-)+)

If you have no text selected and you click on a para or chara style — that style becomes the default for all new text.

Just deselect all text and click on [None] in the panel — that resets the default back to no character style being applied.

Have a good one,

d.

[Dwayne Smith]

G’day Jeff,

Yep, InDesign is a bit of a pain in that way. If you add, delete, or rename layers in your source file InDesign doesn’t know how to handle your original Object Layer Options — so it imports all visible layers. If you just edit content on the various layers, you’re fine — but make edits to the layers themselves and you got yourself a world or arrgh.

d.

[Dwayne Smith]

Never seen a corrupt paragraph style before.

Just to be sure… have you double-checked that a character style is not being applied as well ?

d.