Working with Styles - Adobe InDesign CC - page 352

Exploring on your own
When you're creating a long document or a template to use as the basis for other docu-
ments, you want to take full advantage of all styles features. To fine-tune the styles further,
try the following:
• Rearrange styles in the Paragraph Styles panel. For example, drag the new Drop
Cap Body style into the Body Text group.
• Experiment with modifying formatting and redefining styles, including object,
table, character, and paragraph styles. For example, change the background color
of a table cell and update the cell style.
• Create additional character styles that change only one attribute of format-
ting—such as creating a character style that applies only a different color.
• Add more keyboard shortcuts to the existing styles.
Review questions
1 . How can using object styles speed up your workflow?
2 . What must you have created previously in order to create a nested style?
3 . What are the two ways to globally update a style you've applied in an InDesign
document?
4 . How would you import styles from another InDesign document?
Review answers
1 . Object styles save time by letting you keep together a group of formatting attributes
that you can quickly apply to graphics and frames. If you need to update the format-
ting, you don't have to change each frame formatted with the style individually. In-
stead, you can simply modify the object style to automatically update all the frames
to which it is applied.
2 . The two prerequisites for creating nested styles are that you have first created a
character style, and that you have built a paragraph style in which to nest it.
3 . There are two ways to update styles in InDesign. The first is to edit the style itself
and make changes to the formatting options. The other is to use local formatting to
change an instance, and then redefine the style based on that instance.
4 . Importing styles is easy. Simply choose the appropriate Load Style option from
the Object Styles panel menu, Character Styles panel menu, Paragraph Styles panel
menu, Table Styles panel menu, or Cell Styles panel menu, and locate the InDesign