Reply To: Joke book layout tips

How creative. I am playing around with this to see how easy it is to match the sample layout I have made for a regular text layout.

What I have right now is:
one liners
riddles with answers on the following line, upside-down
interesting facts about some of the riddles in a speech bubble being “spoken” by a comic figure

Between each of the answers and the next riddle (that is, when the answer is not followed by a one liner which has its own style and font) I have a dingbat with a line as a separator.

I can’t really auto-format this even with “next paragraph” styles because there is no pattern.
I’ve set up shortcuts on my styles so it goes pretty smoothly. As the majority of the jokes are with answers, I do have a next style built in and just adjust when necessary. The most time consuming part is flipping and inserting the upside-down answers.
Now I’m trying to figure out how much of a time saver the table will be with the variables mentioned above.
I made a cell style for each kind of line but applying them feels more time consuming than regular style application (unless there is something I am missing here).

Thanks so much for weighing in. It’s great to have a forum of helpful people!