InDesign: Advanced Styles

Course details

Explore the ins and outs of styles, a time-saving set of features that allows designers to maximize efficiency in InDesign. This course covers text styles, table and cell styles, object styles, and other features in InDesign that are improved by the use of styles. Nigel French explores working with character and paragraph styles, and advanced text formatting with nested styles. He also explains how to create multilevel lists, generate a table of contents, and map Word styles to InDesign styles. Plus, he shares how to apply styles with Find/Change and apply conditions.

Learning objectives
Creating, applying, and redefining paragraph and character styles
Using Quick Apply to apply styles
Using GREP styles to automate text formatting
Controlling text flow with styles
Organizing content with paragraph rules and paragraph shading
Creating, applying, and redefining object styles
Applying styles with Find/Change
Mapping Word styles to InDesign styles

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Introduction
02 - Using the exercise files
03 - Set up a workspace

1. Paragraph and Character Styles Basics

04 - Paragraph styles and character styles
05 - Create, apply, and redefine paragraph styles
06 - Create, apply, and redefine character styles
07 - Create based-on styles
08 - Deleting and replace styles

2. Managing Styles

09 - The Basic Paragraph style
10 - Imported styles
11 - Break the line to a style
12 - Manage overrides
13 - Share and reuse styles
14 - Create a default set of paragraph and character styles
15 - Add a keyboard shortcut
16 - Use Quick Apply to apply styles
17 - Use the Eyedropper to apply styles
18 - Styles housekeeping

3. Advanced Text Styles

19 - Create a drop cap style
20 - Add a nested style
21 - Add a nested style at the end of a paragraph
22 - Add multiple nested styles
23 - Repeat nested styles
24 - Nested line styles
25 - Automate formatting with GREP styles
26 - Create style sequences and style loops
27 - Controlling text flow with styles
28 - Organize content with paragraph rules and paragraph shading

4. Lists

29 - Bullet lists
30 - Numbered lists
31 - Right align numbers in lists
32 - Number across stories
33 - Multilevel hierarchical lists
34 - Considerations for working with lists

5. Object Styles

35 - Create, apply, and redefine object styles
36 - Anchored object styles
37 - Some common uses for object styles
38 - Create a default object style

6. Table and Cell Styles

39 - What table and cell styles can and can t do
40 - Create, apply, and modify tables styles

7. Other Uses of Styles

41 - Map Word styles to InDesign styles
42 - Apply styles with Find Change
43 - Apply conditions to styles
44 - Synchronize styles across documents with the Book feature
45 - Generate a table of contents with styles
46 - Generate automatic captions
47 - Create stroke styles

Conclusion

48 - Summary