Adobe InDesign CS3 User Manual
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Create one or more nested styles
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Create one or more character styles that you want to use to format text.
2
Do one of the following:
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To add nested styles to a paragraph style, double-click the paragraph style, and then click Drop Caps and Nested
Styles.
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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.
4
Do any of the following for each style, and then click OK:
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Click the character style area, and then select a character style to determine the appearance of that section of the
paragraph.
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Specify the item that ends the character style formatting. You can also type the character, such as a colon (:) or a
specific letter or number. You cannot type a word.
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Specify how many instances of the selected item (such as characters, words, or sentences) are required.
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Choose Through or Up To. Choosing Through includes the character that ends the nested style, while choosing
Up To formats only those characters that precede this character.
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Select a style and click the up button
or down button
to change the order of the styles in the list. The order
of the styles determines the order in which the formatting is applied. The formatting defined by the second style
begins where the formatting of the first style concludes. If you apply a character style to the drop cap, the drop-
cap character style acts as the first nested style.
Loop through nested styles
You can repeat a series of two or more nested styles throughout a paragraph. A simple example would be to alternate
red and green words in a paragraph. The repeating pattern remains intact even if you add or remove words in the
paragraph.
1
Create the character styles you want to use.
2
Edit or create a paragraph style, or place the insertion point in the paragraph you want to format.
3
In the Drop Caps and Nested Styles section or dialog box, click New Nested Style at least twice and choose settings
for each style.
4
Click New Nested Style again, choose [Repeat] in the character style area, and specify how many nested styles will
be repeated.
In some cases, you may want to skip the first style or styles. For example, an events calendar paragraph may include
“This Week’s Events” followed by days of the week and their events. In this case, you could create five nested styles:
one for “This Week’s Events,” one each for the day, event, and event time, and a final style with a [Repeat] value of 3,
thereby excluding the first nested style from the loop.