QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign CS4 Conversion Guide

To format the first
paragraph of this
story, place the text
cursor in it and
open Quick Apply.
Type a few letters in
the style name, and
then press Return
or Enter.
The paragraph
style specifies the
font and uppercase
format. The nested
line style applies
bright blue to the
first line. The
nested style applies
the darker blue to
the first word.
Quick Apply
The Quick Apply feature lets you
quickly find and apply character,
paragraph, table, and object
styles. It also allows you to choose
features, such as menu commands
and scripts, all while keeping your
hands on the keyboard.
To open the Quick Apply panel,
press Command+Return (Mac
OS) or Ctrl+Enter (Windows).
When the panel is displayed,
type a few letters of a style or
menu item name to select it,
and then press Return or Enter
to apply it and close the panel.
The letters do not need to be at
the beginning of the name. For
example, if you have a paragraph
style named “Heading 1,” you can
select it in the Quick Apply panel
by typing “h1.”
You can control which features
Quick Apply will list from the
menu in the Quick Apply panel.
Nested Styles
InDesign offers several methods
to automatically apply different
text styles to different parts of a
paragraph. For example, you can
apply different formatting to a
drop cap character by first creating
a character style with the
desired font, color, and so on; then
choose Drop Caps And Nested Styles
from the Control panel menu, and
pick that character style in the Drop
Cap section.
The Drop Caps And Nested Styles
dialog box (or, if you’re editing a
paragraph style, the Drop Caps And
Nested Styles pane of the Paragraph
Style Options dialog box) also lets
you apply nested styles and line
styles.
A nested style is a character style
applied to a specified range of text
inside the paragraph. For example,
you can apply one character style to
the first word of the paragraph, and
another character style up to the first
colon (:) character.
To create a nested style, you first
create one or more character styles.
Then, in the Drop Caps and Nested
Styles pane of the Paragraph Styles
Options dialog box, 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. Click the
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