In this “Three Minutes Max” InDesign video, Julie Shaffer shows off a trick to create cascading objects styles, sort of. By using paragraph shading, she is able to make a paragraph style with Next Style attributes to change the look of each subsequent text frame. As a bonus, she also shows a quick way to manipulate multiple frames at once and even change the look of numbers in a list. All that in just three minutes!
Three Minutes Max comes from a fun—yet very competitive—session at our annual CreativePro Week conference. Speakers have three minutes to wow the audience with the tip and win a prize for a lucky conference attendee.
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This article was last modified on August 29, 2025
This article was first published on December 27, 2023
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