: InDesign: Resetting character style after end of paragraph Is there a way (a setting or a shortcut) in InDesign to reset a character style to None after the end of a paragraph? Paragraph styles

@Karen819

In your case I would have maybe used GREP styles shown on the image below.



Here ~h stands for End Nested Style Here character which serves as a style divider (visible in special characters mode as a backslash). If you feel more comfortable with any other character feel free to replace all the ~h-s with anything you like from the drop-down menu.

The application order of the styles matters. Here are the expressions so that you could copy them:

For Style 2: ~h.*

For Style 1: ~h[^~h]*~h?

In case you are interested in regular expressions used in GREP styles, here's how the above construction works:

First we apply Style 2 to everything from the first End Nested Style Here character (inclusive) to the end of the paragraph. . means any character, .* means any characters, any times which basically means all characters. So, the whole expression means ENSH character and everything after.

Then we apply Style 1 to everything between two ENSH characters (inclusive). [^~h] means anything but a ENSH character. Thus, [^~h]* means anything but an ENSH character, any times or, to put it simpler, everything until an ENSH character. So, ~h[^~h]* will mean everything starting from an ENSH character until the next ENSH character.

If we now leave the second expression as it is, the Style 1 will be applied to EVERY
“ENSH + text” pair. But if we include the following ENSH characher into this group too, the text AFTER the second ENSH will not meet the condition, just as needed. So we add ~h to the end of the expression and change it to ~h? to indicate that this ENSH is optional (as on line 3 on the example image).

You can learn more about the GREP syntax on any website that describes regular expressions like this one.

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