Mapping styles from one ID file to another ID file

Carey Martin

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- November 13, 2018 at 7:39 pm #111579
  
  Carey Martin
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  Hi, I’m moving from one template to a new one for some annual publications. It seems easiest to copy/paste sections from the existing book (will get small changes) to the new template. Changes include colour, text, object and cell styles plus general layout.
  
  However, I want to map the styles from one ID file to the next as you can when importing from Word, but it won’t let me. Is there any way I can do this?
  
  Of course, there might be an easier way than just copy/pasting the text (Create alternate layout?) but would that allow me to again take all the new colour/object/text/cell styles from the new template into the old and override the old stuff. Word lets me do this, can InDesign?
  
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- November 13, 2018 at 10:35 pm #111582
  
  Claudio Marconato
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  Hi Carey,
  you may use the same name of styles in the new template so that when you paste texts and objects the formatting options change according to the new template.
- November 14, 2018 at 2:56 pm #111591
  
  Carey Martin
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  Thanks Claudio, but it isn’t happening that way. I tried that first. Any ideas why this is not happening?
  
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- November 14, 2018 at 3:54 pm #111592
  
  Carey Martin
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  I think I know why it did not work. To keep my templates separate I name a group and put them in there. So while the style names might be the same, the group name is not. Will try next time I move stuff across.
- November 14, 2018 at 4:00 pm #111593
  
  Dwayne Harris
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  Did you try appending the styles from one to the other?
- November 21, 2018 at 8:44 am #111740
  
  Lori Holland
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  Have you tried “importing styles” (assuming you mean paragraph/character/cell styles) from the source document to the new? Then you get them verbatim from the old to the new.
  
  If you copy and paste instead, and already have the same named style in the new, you will not get the old style (it doesn’t overwrite)
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