Convert word styles to indesign styles, Apply styles, Apply a character style – Adobe InDesign CS5 User Manual
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USING INDESIGN
Styles
Last updated 11/16/2011
Convert Word styles to InDesign styles
While importing a Microsoft Word document into InDesign or InCopy, you can map each style used in Word to a
corresponding style in InDesign or InCopy. By doing so, you specify which styles format the imported text. A disk
icon
appears next to each imported Word style until you edit the style in InDesign or InCopy.
1 Do one of the following:
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To add the Word document to existing text in InDesign or InCopy, choose File
> Place. Select Show Import
Options, and then double-click the Word document.
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To open the Word document in a stand-alone InCopy document, start InCopy, choose File
> Open, and then
double-click the Word file.
2 Select Preserve Styles And Formatting From Text And Tables.
3 Select Customized Style Import, and then click Style Mapping.
4 In the Style Mapping dialog box, select the Word style, and then select an option from the menu under InDesign
style. You can choose the following options:
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If there is no style name conflict, choose New Paragraph Style, New Character Style, or choose an existing InDesign
style.
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If there is a style name conflict, choose Redefine InDesign Style to format the imported style text with the Word
style. Choose an existing InDesign style to format the imported style text with the InDesign style. Choose Auto
Rename to rename the Word style.
5 Click OK to close the Style Mapping dialog box, and then click OK to import the document.
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Apply styles
By default, applying a paragraph style won’t remove any existing character formatting or character styles applied to
part of a paragraph, although you have the option of removing existing formatting when you apply a style. A plus
sign
(+) appears next to the current paragraph style in the Styles panel if the selected text uses a character or paragraph
style and also uses additional formatting that isn’t part of the applied style. Such additional formatting is called an
override or local formatting.
Character styles remove or reset character attributes of existing text if those attributes are defined by the style.
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Override character and paragraph styles
Apply a character style
1 Select the characters to which you want to apply the style.
2 Do one of the following:
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Click the character style name in the Character Styles panel.
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Select the character style name from the drop-down list in the Control panel.