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6. For Based On, select which style the current style is based on.
7. To define a style shortcut, position the insertion point in the Shortcut text box and make sure that Num Lock is on. Then hold down any
combination of Shift, Alt, or Ctrl (Windows) or Shift, Option, and Command (Mac OS), and press a number on the numeric keypad. You
cannot use letters or non-keypad numbers for defining style shortcuts.
8. To specify the formatting attributes, click a category on the left and specify the attributes you want. For example, to assign a paragraph style
to a cell style, click the General category, and then choose the paragraph style from the Paragraph Style menu.
For cell styles, options that don’t have a setting specified are ignored in the style. If you don’t want a setting to be part of the style, choose
(Ignore) from the setting’s menu, delete the contents of the field, or click a check box until a small box appears in Windows or a hyphen (-)
appears in Mac OS.
9. If you want the new style to appear in a style group you’ve created, drag it to the style group folder.
Load (import) table styles from other documents
You can import table and cell styles from another InDesign document into the active document. During import, you can determine which styles are
loaded and what should occur if a loaded style has the same name as a style in the current document. You can also import styles from an InCopy
document.
1. From the menu of the Cell Styles or Table Styles panel, choose Load Cell Styles, Load Table Styles, or Load Table And Cell Styles.
2. Double-click the InDesign document containing the styles you want to import.
3. In the Load Styles dialog box, make sure that a check mark appears next to the styles you want to import. If any existing style has the same
name as one of the imported styles, choose one of the following options under Conflict With Existing Style, and then click OK:
Overwrites the existing style with the loaded style and applies its new attributes to all cells in the current
document that used the old style. The definitions of the incoming and existing styles appear at the bottom of the Load Styles dialog box so
you can compare them.
Renames the loaded style. For example, if both documents have a style named “Table Style 1,” the loaded style is renamed
“Table Style 1 copy” in the current document.
Apply table and cell styles
Unlike paragraph and character styles, table and cell styles do not share attributes, so applying a table style does not override cell formatting, and
applying a cell style does not override table formatting. By default, applying a cell style removes formatting applied by any previous cell style, but
does not remove local cell formatting. Similarly, applying a table style removes formatting applied by any previous table style, but does not remove
overrides made using the Table Options dialog box.
In the Styles panel, a plus sign (+) appears next to the current cell or table style if the selected cell or table has additional formatting that isn’t part
of the applied style. Such additional formatting is called an override.
1. Position the insertion point in a table, or select the cells to which you want to apply the style.
2. Do one of the following:
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