Styling characters into a pragraph

Question

I am looking for a specific design on characters or words in an Adobe InDesign paragraph.

I styled a paragraph as a little pill.

But I want to apply this design on a certain word in a larger paragraph with many others words. I have already tried styling some text with the "characters style" feature but I can't find my way.

EDIT :

In ask of many user, and in answer to Wolff

You right, but i already tried to did this. I wanted, if it was possible, to insert into a paragraph : an other paragraph, or shape, or wateever and apply this on certains characters or word. As we can do in html css with in a paragraph

Answer 1

You can't achieve what you want only using styling. In InDesign the text behaves like pure text nodes in HTML. You can't add a box around single words like using a span in HTML.

You can instead paste the pill shaped text frame (or any other object) into your main text frame as an anchored object.

The pasted object now behaves like a letter in the text.

You can right-click the anchored object and select Anchored Object > Options to set up how it behaves. You probably want to set its Y Offset.

When you are satisfied with the settings you can create an Object Style so you can quickly create new pills.

Answer 2

Updated answer

You need to use a combination of anchored objects, find replace and object styles. This is not a very detailed guide, but hopefully you can read between the lines and improvise a bit:

• first, take the text for the so called "pill" and format as needed into a separate text box. when done, cut this to the Clipboard
• do a Find/Change in the main body of text and replace that particular text with 'Clipboard contents, formatted'. this will bring your "pill" into the main text flow for each instance
• adjust these up and down using an object style, and provide spacing left right if needed using custom spacing

Then, you can end up with something like this: