InDesign Tips: Using Multiple Delimiters for Nested Styles
If you haven’t tapped into the nested styles feature of Adobe InDesign, you’re in for a treat. Nested styles combine paragraph and character formatting into a single sophisticated style that can be applied at the click of a mouse.
A key factor in setting a nested style is choosing what character or text element will trigger the various formats. For example, you can tell InDesign to start with bold text then, when it encounters a period, switch to plain. After one sentence, change the style to italic.
That scenario works fine for predictable lists, but what if you use punctuation other than a period? Can you still apply a nested style? Yes, you can.
In this tip from Adobe InDesign Evangelist Tim Cole, you’ll learn the hidden secret of using multiple delimiters in InDesign’s nested styles.
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This article was last modified on January 10, 2022
This article was first published on January 29, 2005
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