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The ability to base styles on one another is one of the most powerful and important features in InDesign. However, there are times when you’ll want to use one style as the starting point for another, without making the new style based on the existing style. That way, the attributes of new style won’t change no matter how you change the existing style.
To do this, use the Duplicate Style feature: right-click on a style in the panel and choose Duplicate Style (or click on a style and choose Duplicate Style from the panel menu).
Your new style will start off with all the formatting of the existing style, but it will not be based on that style. Instead, it will be based on No Paragraph Style or whatever style the existing style was based on.
This article was last modified on July 25, 2019
This article was first published on December 23, 2014
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