How to Alternate Text Styles in InDesign

Chad Chelius
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In this “Three Minutes Max” video, Chad Chelius shows how to create an alternating pattern paragraph style on InDesign text. Using the Next Style feature, he demos how to make a “vicious loop” to create the alternate styles.

Three Minutes Max comes from a fun—yet very competitive—session at our annual CreativePro Week conference. Speakers have three minutes (max!) to wow the audience with the tip and win a prize for a lucky conference attendee.

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Chad Chelius
Chad Chelius is a trainer, author, consultant, and speaker residing in the Philadelphia area. He’s been using Adobe products for over 25 years and began his career in the design and publishing industry. As an Adobe Certified Instructor and a consultant, he teaches and advises on all Adobe print and web products, specializing in InDesign and InCopy workflows, Illustrator, and PDF accessibility using Adobe Acrobat. He works with clients both large and small, in and outside the United States, helping them to solve problems, work smarter, and more efficiently using Adobe products.
  • Bill says:
    January 15, 2020 at 2:25 pm

    Great quick tip but wasn’t Table Styles meant to do this? I can never get Table Styles to save me much work. I just end up setting up one table and then duplicating the formatted version and then copy/pasting data back into the duplicate.

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  • Vasker Last says:
    March 4, 2020 at 7:33 am

    Thanks.

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