Reply To: Paragraph style management and naming issue

In general, I try (but don't always succeed) to avoid naming paragraph and character styles with a description of what they look like, and instead go for a description of their function. That way, if you end up changing the formatting, you don't also have to go through and rename the styles. I think this is easier to explain to someone else, too — “Use the 'Example' style” as opposed to “use the 'Green text in Gill Sans' style.”

There are a few abbreviations that I commonly use: NI for No Indent, BUC for Bold Until Colon, SB for Sidebar. I use those as suffixes, so 'body text' could become 'body text NI' or 'body text NI BUC' — those break my 'describe the function' rule, but I think 'body text with tertiary header' is even more unwieldy. ;-)