Posts Tagged with ‘paragraph styles’

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

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

Did you ever want a list of a document’s paragraph styles where each style name appears in the style’s formatting? Here’s a script that does just that, along with some general tips on copying and pasting script code.

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?

A seemingly small, yet incredibly powerful feature, that InDesign contains is the ability to base Styles (Table, Cell, Object, Paragraph, Character) on existing Styles. You can even base Master Pages on other Master Pages… The reason that I personally like this feature so much, is that it allows you to re-use existing publication templates and very quickly alter the designs.

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.

I want to change all the paragraphs after a heading to have no indent… fortunately, this script lets you target paragraph style pairs!

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?