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InDesign: Advanced Styles

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Explore the ins and outs and time-saving benefits of using styles in InDesign. Learn about text styles, table and cell styles, object styles, and other style-related features.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Introduction
  • Using the exercise files
  • Set up a workspace
1. Paragraph and Character Styles Basics
  • 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
2. Managing 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
3. Advanced Text Styles
  • 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
4. Lists
  • Bullet lists
  • Numbered lists
  • Right align numbers in lists
  • Number across stories
  • Multilevel hierarchical lists
  • Considerations for working with lists
5. Object Styles
  • Create, apply, and redefine object styles
  • Anchored object styles
  • Some common uses for object styles
  • Create a default object style
6. Table and Cell Styles
  • What table and cell styles can and can’t do
  • Create, apply, and modify tables styles
7. Other Uses of 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
Conclusion
  • Summary

Taught by

Nigel French

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