Apply a paragraph style, Apply sequential styles to multiple paragraphs, Edit character and paragraph styles – Adobe InDesign CS5 User Manual
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USING INDESIGN
Styles
Last updated 11/16/2011
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Press the keyboard shortcut you assigned to the style. (Make sure that Num Lock is on.)
Apply a paragraph style
1 Click in a paragraph, or select all or part of the paragraphs to which you want to apply the style.
2 Do one of the following:
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Click the paragraph style name in the Paragraph Styles panel.
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Select the paragraph style name from the menu in the Control panel.
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Press the keyboard shortcut you assigned to the style. (Make sure that Num Lock is on.)
3 If any unwanted formatting remains in the text, choose Clear Overrides from the Paragraph Styles panel.
Apply sequential styles to multiple paragraphs
The Next Style option specifies which style will be automatically applied when you press Enter or Return after applying
a particular style. It also lets you apply different styles to multiple paragraphs in a single action.
For example, suppose you have three styles for formatting a newspaper column: Title, Byline, and Body. Title uses
Byline for Next Style, Byline uses Body for Next Style, and Body uses [Same Style] for Next Style. If you select an entire
article, including the title, the author’s byline, and the paragraphs in the article, and then apply the Title style using the
special “Next Style” command in the context menu, the article’s first paragraph will be formatted with the Title style,
the second paragraph will be formatted with the Byline style, and all other paragraphs will be formatted with the Body
style.
Before and after applying a style with Next Style.
1 Select the paragraphs to which you want to apply the styles.
2 In the Paragraph Styles panel, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac
OS) the parent style, and then choose
Apply [Style Name] Then Next Style.
If the text includes formatting overrides or character styles, the context menu also lets you remove overrides, character
styles, or both.
Edit character and paragraph styles
One of the advantages of using styles is that when you change the definition of a style, all of the text formatted with
that style changes to match the new style definition.
Note: If you edit styles in InCopy content that’s linked to an InDesign document, the modifications are overridden when
the linked content is updated.