Posts Tagged with ‘character styles’

A new free script can reveal at a glance where any style has been applied in your documents.

There is one location in InDesign CS5.5 or later that shows you the hexadecimal values for a color… can you guess what it is?

Does your text mysteriously change size when you export from InDesign to EPUB? The way InDesign handles text scaling may be the cause.

This is a workflow I use almost everytime I import a Word file that someone sends me. Every InDesign user should know this.

Use this quick workaround to import Word styles into an InDesign document. (Yes, sometimes that’s what you want to do.)

Need a list of all text formatting for your colleagues, boss, or client?

Style Groups, introduced in InDesign CS3, are sometimes used to keep Styles panels organized. But a client showed me another clever use for style groups last week.

Need to convert nested style formatting into “real” character style formatting? This quick workaround can help!

What do you do when you want to remove the color from a character style definition? It’s easy to do, once you know the trick.

One paragraph style can apply a whole bunch of character styles to the same range of text. But how do you know which one will prevail when there’s a conflict?