Quark to InDesignCS3 Conversion Guide - InDesign User Group

Invoke Quick Apply and type
the first few letters in a style
name to quickly locate and
apply a style.
Style. The Headline style is applied to
the first paragraph, the Byline style is
applied to the second paragraph, and
the Body Text style is applied to the
remaining paragraphs.
Undo changes when modifying a
style that’s based on another style.
If you make changes to a paragraph
style that’s based on another style,
click Reset To Base to restore the settings
of the “child” style to those of
the “parent” style.
Quickly apply any character or
paragraph style. The Quick Apply
feature lets you quickly find and
apply character and paragraph styles.
Quick Apply has been enhanced in
InDesign CS3 and allows you to apply
features, such as menu commands,
text variables, and scripts, all while
keeping your hands on the keyboard.
To open the Quick Apply panel,
choose Edit > Quick Apply, or press
Command+Return in Mac OS or
Ctrl+Enter in Windows. You can also
open Quick Apply by clicking the
Quick Apply icon in the Control
panel. When the panel is displayed,
type the first letter or letters of a style
to select it, and then press Return or
Enter to apply it and close the panel.
The Quick Apply feature also works
with object styles.
Support for styles in Word documents.
InDesign offers powerful
controls for handling styles in
imported Word documents. For
more information, see page 39.
what are nested styles in InDesign?
A nested style is a character style
that’s saved within a paragraph style
and applies character-level formatting
to a range of text. You can set
up two or more nested styles to
work sequentially, with one nested
style taking over where the previous
one ends. Nested style looping, new
in InDesign CS3, lets you repeat a
sequence of nested styles through
the end of a paragraph.
Nested styles are especially useful
for creating run-in headings at
the beginning of a paragraph. For
example, you can apply one character
style to the first letter in a paragraph
(such as, a drop cap) and another
character style that takes effect
through the first colon (:). For each
nested style, you can define a character
that ends the style, such as a tab
character or the end of a word.
To create a nested style, you first
create one or more character styles.
Then choose New Paragraph Style
from the Paragraph Styles panel
menu, and specify the attributes of
that style. In the Drop Caps And
Nested Styles pane, click New Nested
Style. In the Nested Styles area, select
a character style from the pop-up
menu, and then click the area to the
right of the character style and
choose Through or Up To. Choosing
Through includes the character you
specify in the rightmost column;
choosing Up To formats only the
text that precedes this character. In
the rightmost column, choose an
option from the menu, or type a
character. This setting determines
where the character formatting
ends. Click the area to the left of
the rightmost column, and specify
how many instances of the character
are required.
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