Reply To: Migrating to new computer

TeqToo: When you create a new document on your old computer, does it automatically have paragraph and/or character styles in the panel? If that is the case, then you have “default styles.”

As others pointed out, your documents will all come across with their styles just fine. But those default styles may not. But you can capture those by:
1. Creating a new document and saving it with any name. (That document will have all the default styles in it.)
2. Move that document to the new computer.
3. Launch InDesign on the new computer, and while no documents are open in InDesign, choose Load All Text Styles from the paragraph styles panel menu.
4. It will ask you for a document to load them from; choose the new document you just created.

Now all the default styles will appear in InDesign. Because no documents were created, they become the default styles in the new document, too.