InDesign: Advanced Styles

Introduction

• Introduction
• Using the exercise files
• Set up a workspace

• Paragraph styles and character styles
• Create, apply, and redefine paragraph styles
• Create, apply, and redefine character styles
• Create based-on styles
• Deleting and replace styles

• The [Basic Paragraph] style
• Imported styles
• Break the line to a style
• Manage overrides
• Share and reuse styles
• Create a default set of paragraph and character styles
• Add a keyboard shortcut
• Use Quick Apply to apply styles
• Use the Eyedropper to apply styles
• Styles housekeeping

• Create a drop cap style
• Add a nested style
• Add a nested style at the end of a paragraph
• Add multiple nested styles
• Repeat nested styles
• Nested line styles
• Automate formatting with GREP styles
• Create style sequences and style loops
• Controlling text flow with styles
• Organize content with paragraph rules and paragraph shading

• Bullet lists
• Numbered lists
• Right align numbers in lists
• Number across stories
• Multilevel hierarchical lists
• Considerations for working with lists

• Create, apply, and redefine object styles
• Anchored object styles
• Some common uses for object styles
• Create a default object style

• What table and cell styles can and can’t do
• Create, apply, and modify tables styles

• Map Word styles to InDesign styles
• Apply styles with Find/Change
• Apply conditions to styles
• Synchronize styles across documents with the Book feature
• Generate a table of contents with styles
• Generate automatic captions
• Create stroke styles

• Summary