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Styles

Last updated 6/6/2015

About character and paragraph styles

A character style is a collection of character formatting attributes that can be applied to text in a single step. A paragraph

style includes both character and paragraph formatting attributes, and can be applied to a paragraph or range of

paragraphs. Paragraph styles and character styles are found on separate panels. Paragraph and characters styles are

sometimes called text styles.

A named grid format can be applied to a frame grid in the Frame Grid format settings. (See Named Grids panel

overview.) You can also use create an object style with grid characteristics. (See About object styles.)

When you change the formatting of a style, all text to which the style has been applied will be updated with the new

format.

You can create, edit, and delete styles in stand-alone Adobe InCopy documents or in InCopy content that is linked to

an Adobe InDesign CS4 document. When the contents are updated in InDesign, new styles are added to the InDesign

document, but any style modifications made in InCopy will be overridden by the InDesign style. For linked content, it

is usually best to manage your styles in InDesign.

[Basic Paragraph] styles

By default, each new document contains a [Basic Paragraph] style that is applied to text you type. You can edit this style,

but you can’t rename or delete it. You can rename and delete styles that you create. You can also select a different default

style to apply to text.

Character style attributes

Unlike paragraph styles, character styles do not include all the formatting attributes of selected text. Instead, when you

create a character style, InDesign makes only those attributes that are different from the formatting of the selected text

part of the style. That way, you can create a character style that, when applied to text, changes only some attributes, such

as the font family and size, ignoring all other character attributes. If you want other attributes to be part of the style, add

them when editing the style.

Next Style

You can automatically apply styles as you type text. If, for example, your document’s design calls for the style “body text”

to follow a heading style named “heading 1,” you can set the Next Style option for “heading 1” to “body text.” After

you’ve typed a paragraph styled with “heading 1,” pressing Enter or Return starts a new paragraph styled with “body

text.”

If you use the context menu when applying a style to two or more paragraphs, you can cause the parent style to be

applied to the first paragraph and the Next Style to be applied to the additional paragraphs. (See

Apply styles.)

To use the Next Style feature, choose a style from the Next Style menu when you’re creating or editing a style.

Jeff Witchel provides a video tutorial about using the Next Style feature at Using the Next Style feature.

Styles panel overview

Use the Character Styles panel to create, name, and apply character styles to text within a paragraph; use the Paragraph

Styles panel to create, name, and apply paragraph styles to entire paragraphs. Styles are saved with a document and

display in the panel each time you open that document.

When you select text or position the insertion point, any style that has been applied to that text is highlighted in either

of the Styles panels, unless the style is in a collapsed style group. If you select a range of text that contains multiple styles,

no style is highlighted in the Styles panel. If you select a range of text to which multiple styles are applied, the Styles

panel displays “(Mixed).”

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