Reply To: Paragraph style management and naming issue

I just go

Heading L1

Heading L2

Heading L3

Heading L4

Heading L5

etc.

Body Level 1

Body Level 2

Body Level 3

etc.

Bullets Level 1

Bullets Level 2

Bullets Level 3

etc.

Headings are based on Body Level 1

Body is based on Body Level 1

Bullet Level 1 is based on Body Level 1

Bullet Level 2 is based on Bullet 1

Then whatever else I need follows the same format.

I acutally have predefiined styles before I open a document genreated, and I made a .inx file of those styles (for when pesky preferences reset grrr. )

I have all my swatches preloaded, and incorporated into styles (they are in Spot Colour but the ink manager is preprogrammed to convert to CMYK).

To change a publication Style I just need to edit the Heading Level 1 and Body Level 1, remove swatch and replace it with another.

Of course helps to have text frames already set up in Object styles, you can adjust the columns and widths quite easily when you use an Object Style for text frames.

Making a new publication is a snap. Looks different, feels different, it is different, but just a few tweaky bits with styles.

(I should add that when nested styles are generated I make sure I make a character style that says “Bold Italic nested with Heading 1 Level ~” then on Heading Level 1 I would duplicate this style (so it's based on Heading Level 1 and add a “~” to the name of the style. Then I add the nested style.”

I don't do shortnames for styles, because others have to work on my files, so it would be unfair to them to have them guess what BUC or something is, and I have to think about what way I leave the files for when I'm no longer working here (I will be here, but not forever :) ) )