Adobe InDesign CS5 - Manual (Page 214)

208 USING INDESIGN
Styles
Last updated 11/16/2011
In this example, the Number character style formats the first word, and the Run-in character style formats text through the first colon.
Michael Murphy provides an article on nested styles at InDesign's Nested Styles Auto-Format Multiple Paragraphs .
He also provides a series of video tutorials that starts at Nested Style Sheets .
Create one or more nested styles
1 Create one or more character styles that you want to use to format text.
2 Do one of the following:
• To add nested styles to a paragraph style, double-click the paragraph style, and then click Drop Caps And Nested
Styles.
• To add nested styles to a single paragraph, choose Drop Caps And Nested Styles from the Paragraph panel menu.
Note: For best results, apply nested styles as part of paragraph styles. If you apply nested styles as local overrides to a
paragraph, subsequent editing or formatting changes in the nested style can produce unexpected character formatting in
the styled text.
3 Click New Nested Style one or more times.