If I specify a border & use just the 'top' as a horizontal rule with the idea to have it appear only on either side of a line of text, there isn't an option to do that or for the shading to knock-out the 'border' or have one in front of the other so it would be handy to be able to specify that one is on top of the other & the option to knock it out or a gap size. I've achieved the desired effect in the 2nd image with a white stroke but that doesn't work well if there is a 2nd line of text - as it starts to white out the top line & then you can't get enough of a gap between the first & last words on that line.

For years I've been hoping for an option to right click a a specific style to FIND THIS STYLE in the document. Because we all name them differently, I sometimes need to find a Style in the document, rather than click all over the place to hunt it down.

I'm currently working with a manual that I did not create. There are 30 or 40 styles I have to clean up. I love the Select All Unused option, but now I have styles that I know I'm not using and they're still showing as existing somewhere in the document.

Please consider adding a "FIND THIS STYLE" option.

Thanks for your consideration.

We have only two character formats "A, B, C, D ..." and "a, b, c, d ..." except digital. But many of us work with texts in languages with other alphabets, which are also used as indexes of lists. It would be nice to have formats of local alphabets depending on the language chosen for the paragraph. For example, if the Russian language is selected for the paragraph, then in the list of character formats, except the Latin alphabet, there will be a Russian "А, Б, В, Г..."
This property should not depend on whether the localized or English version of the InDesign is used, sometimes it is necessary to work with multilingual documents

We are working with at least ten different paragraph styles per document. If there are changes to be made in the CIs we have to check every single style: Opening up the Paragraph Style Options window, changing, closing, next style, reapeat... forgetting something and opening all windows again to check.
-> How about a button in the Paragraph Style Options window to jump to the previous or next style in the list? (might be useful to every kind of Style Option window)

In the Paragraph Style Options window there is a Reset to Base button only under General.
-> I would prefer a Reset to Base button for every category.

I know you can set a style based on another style but that doesn´t work for us. So making adjustments for several styles is always a pain.
-> Copying specific adjustments from one style to another would be awesome OR
-> selecting more than one style and opening one collective Paragraph Style Options window to adjust multiple styles at the same time.

1. Using the text tool, click in a paragraph.




2. Hold Option & Shift, then click a Style Sheet formatted paragraph




3. The paragraph that had the text tool in it is now formatted to the [Option/Shift] clicked paragraph's Style Sheet.

This is one of the most time saving keyboard shortcuts from Quark Xpress.

This saves countless hours for anyone formatting text, albeit a tri-fold, or a 1,000 page catalog.

PS: If you're going to mention Command/Return to bring up Style Sheets, this is not time saving. The user still has to scroll the curser around to select the Paragraph/Character Style Sheet, removing the time saving Keyboard Shortcut feature altogether.

Would be great to have a way of adding incremental values to properties in a character style.

In other words instead of setting a character style that has +20 tracking and is 9pt on 12pt leading, you would be able to set it so it is ++20 tracking (whatever the paragraph tracking is plus 20) and --1pt size (whatever the paragraph font size is minus 1pt) on --2pt leading (whatever the paragraph leading is minus 1pt) .

Percentages would also be great and even better if we can reference other properties (ie leading is 130% of font size).

Usage cases:
I often have to deal with Chinese text placed inline in English copy. This usually looks awful at the same font size, and usually the Chinese looks better either 1 or 2 pts smaller than the Latin font. Having the ability to make Chinese 1pt smaller than the English saves on stylesheets.

I also have to design stylesheets for Subs to use in InCopy on Headlines to fit them. Currently the 5 or 6 different headlines all have different tracking values and there is no way to create a universal "Reduce the tracking 5/1000em" and/or "Reduce the tracking 10/1000em". This leads to inevitable mistakes and ugly tracking.

Please eliminate the Basic Paragraph Style. Don’t just allow users to delete it (but if nothing else, at least do that). Remove the style from new documents and don’t have it in the panel by default.

The style is a trap. Users who edit the style or use the style and base other styles on Basic Paragraph usually fall into a trap when copying and pasting text between documents that have different definitions of the style. The text will paste in with different formatting that in the source document. When this happens there are usually one of two reactions: “How the heck did that happen?” or “Oh, silly me forgetting to never use that annoying feature.” but never “Oh good, that’s exactly what I expected.”

Professionals know to never use the style, never edit the style, and never base other styles on Basic paragraph. If you have a feature that professionals know to never use that is a very good clue that it is a bad feature and should be removed. Please do so.

Please make it so that OpenType stylistic alternates can be accessed through paragraph and/or character styles. For instance, my OT font has an alternate form of capital W which I prefer to the default form. It is listed in the Glyphs panel as Stylistic Alternates (salt). However, there is no way to activate this alternate W without manually replacing all default capital Ws with the alternate form I prefer. And even when I do that, reapplying a Paragraph Style to any paragraph where I've changed the W will revert the W to the default. I would like to at least be able to create a GREP style which would automatically apply this stylistic alternate to every instance of "W".