We’re all used to working with style sheets (or least we should be). With each new version of InDesign, there seems to be a new way to style your content. We started with paragraph and character styles, then we got nested styles, followed by object styles, and finally table styles in InDesign CS3. As you can see, nested styles is not really new but it’s something that you should be taking advantage of, so let’s get to it.


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Nested styles really provide an incredibly powerful tool for text formatting. Where in the past you might have been using Character Styles to format part of your text, you can - with the help of Nested Styles - apply selected character styles within a paragraph style.
The tip takes you through a step-by-step how to create a nested style example. Starting out by generating a paragraph style, applying this style and then creating character styles. The tip finishes off show-casing how the character styles are nested within paragraph styles enabling very powerful formatting controls in InDesign.


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Become an instant POWER user of InDesign CS4. Learn the top 5 most useful keyboard shortcuts of InDesign CS4. Real world examples that are going to save you hours of work. Navigate apply paragraph styles place and edit images all with the simple use of some great keyboard shortcuts.


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Here is a short 5-minute preview of InDesign CS4 showing off the powerful new "GREP Styles" feature.


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Short GREP Style tutorial in a series of tutorials. Learn how to format any figures (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0) differently throughout your paragraphs, by incorporating a GREP style into the Paragraph Style you're using to format the text with.


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