February 23 2006 • 11:19 AM
By:
Michael Murphy
Episode 12: Nested Style Sheets, Part 2 (VIDEO)
Picking up right where Part 1 left off, this second installment on Nested Style Sheets shows how you can build in additional instructions to your paragraph styles, allowing you to apply multiple style sheets to multiple paragraphs in a specific order with a single click.
I LOVE your website. It got us through multiple nested styles. Iused the control click on the 1st styles sheet andit workd perfectly, but then I tried it again and the drop down menu only went as far as “apply style” and no further. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Deborah
Deborah — The drop down menu only includes the “Apply [Style], then Next Style…” option when you’ve selected (or your cursor is within) text that has a Paragraph style that has a “Next Style” chosen in the Paragraph Style options. By default, all Paragraph Styles are created with a Next Style setting of “Same Style”. In that case, the contextual menu won’t show you the “..Then Next Style” option because there technically isn’t a next style.
Check the options for the paragraph style that didn’t work and make sure you’ve picked something other than “Same Style” in the Next Style pull-down menu.
And thanks for the kind words about the videocast. I’m glad it’s helping you out.
Michael
Oh…one more thing, Deborah. If you only have one paragraph selected, you won’t see a “…Then Next Style” option because you’ve only picked one paragraph to apply a style to. You need to have at least two paragraphs selected, AND a Next Style option defined for the first of those paragraphs for that to work.
I want to start and end a nested style with the same character (/) with text in between. The problem is that if I have for the first nested style “up to /” and the second (which would be between slashes) as “through 1 /” only the slash is in that style. If I do “through 2 /” it doesn’t take at all.
Is there a solution or am I doing something wrong
@Carole: Not sure what’s wrong there, but you might consider doing this as a grep style instead. Or, do “up to” the first slash, then do another through one character, then do another to the next slash.