Global fix of character style with overrides?

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

I am processing a Word manuscript into a book, and it's been straightforward except for one issue.

A character style was defined in Word to replace inherent italicizing, so that the tag can be manipulated better in both the print and e-book layouts. The problem is that the style imported with a universal override to Cambria (from Arno Pro). Searches can't seem to reliably find the overridden tag, and attempts to switch the whole character tag from one setting to another don't fix the override. I'm coming up on sections with hundreds of italicized words and phrases. There's GOT to be some way to do this with style definitions or search-and-replace!

Specifically: The body text is in varying sizes of Arno Pro, almost entirely Regular. The "Body Italic" character style is set to apply Italic to the tagged text (and, right now, highlight it in magenta to make manual correction easy). Everything works fine - I can change the Body Italic style any way I like and have it show up in all the instances, and I can replace the Body Italic with a bizarre placeholder style (green Berlin, for example)... except that the override to Cambria remains in all cases and searching for either Cambria or Cambria Italic skips all the overridden applications.

Is there a simple way to do a global fix of the override applied to the text tagged with the Body Italic style?

[Willi Adelberger]

I am not a scripting specialist, but I suggest to use a script to remove any override in one or several documents with a single click. Maybe such a script is still existing. You should ask in the scripting section of InDesign.

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Clear Overrides Throughout Document – Id-Extras: InDesign Scripts, Tips & Solutions

[Barb Binder]

searching for either Cambria or Cambria Italic skips all the overridden applications

Are you using Type > Find Font or Edit > Find/Change?

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

I was using Edit>Find with various style definitions, but it didn't work. I tried Type>Find, but for some reason it's showing each instance of the override as a separate line entry for Cambria Italic. Apply change (to Arno Italic) works, but takes several seconds for each instance, and selecting multiple entries has no effect (although it does chew away at the problem for about fifteen seconds).

This override is obviously buggy in some fashion, invisible to the tools except once instance at a time. I've never had trouble doing global changes even with really messed up files.

I had forgotten about "Clear Overrides" though. I had to think about it a minute, and realized I want NO overrides in this document anyway, so I tried that... and it seems to have worked. Thanks for all the very quick replies!

[Barb Binder]

Ha! That was the easy answer. Nice work!

[Willi Adelberger]

It is easy to use if you have only a single thread, but with a lot mor of storys, scripting becomes more effective.

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

But on the other hand, it broke the formatting for the footnote references, all the way through... sigh. This ms has been such a PITA.

[Willi Adelberger]

For me it is  a help to use a preflight profile. This allows me to click from one error to the next in the preflight panel and remove overrides with an assigned shortcut.