Tutorial: InDesign Nested Styles
Pop quiz, hotshot. You’ve got to create a product catalog in InDesign. The product name has to be bold and small caps. The product code uses a smaller font and is in color. What do you do?
If you’re thinking character styles, you’re getting warm. Character styles let you apply all kinds of formatting to selected text in a paragraph with just a click. Best of all, you can save and change the formatting. It’s a nice timesaver. But before you can apply your styles you still have to manually select the text to be formatted, which is a pain. A better answer is InDesign’s nested styles. This powerful feature, when used properly, can save you hours and hours and hours of work. What’s that? You say you haven’t used them? Well what are you waiting for?
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