The normal 'delete' does not work, so I cannot delete two 'inherited' styles from Pages

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The normal 'delete' does not work, so I cannot delete two 'inherited' styles from Pages

I have a large Pages doc in iCloud which I edit on desktop and laptop. Each time it opens the fonts defer to a font which does not exist in my Font book, so I guess it has been 'inherited' somehow while copying and pasting text from various docs.

I sort out the 'body' style to the correct font, and quit the application.

Then when I open the doc on other device it has reset the 'body' font back to the missing font.

I suspect the doc or Pages is corrupt. How can I delete the errant style?

See attached images. The errant styles are 'Object Caption' and 'Object Title' (which I have since renamed 'don't use').

Posted on Jun 3, 2021 3:27 AM

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Jun 4, 2021 6:43 AM in response to tksalvo

I now seem to have solved this 'issue'. It turns out that the MacBook had a 2011 version of 'Open Sans' and the MacMini had a 2015 version - both were version 1.10 but the 2011 TTF file was 108kB and the 2015 TTF files was 220kB. Copying the MacMini font to the MacBook seems to have solved the problem. Btw I had validated the fonts when the issue first happened so I knew it was not a validation problem.

Talking about validation - I remember as some point years ago someone advised using FontBook to validate fonts periodically because a corrupt font could cause weird errors and time delays while OSX sorted them out. So I validated my fonts and found that out of 306 fonts, 49 were corrupt, so I removed them.

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The normal 'delete' does not work, so I cannot delete two 'inherited' styles from Pages

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