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• • June 6, 2015 at 10:11 am #75866
    Anonymous

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    I hope I’m not bothering you nice people with something that will turn out to be an “InDesign 101” question, but I’m wondering if there’s a way (that I’m not discerning) whereby lines of text, partaking of consecutive paragraph styles (for example, a header style followed by a subhead style), and copied from a source document can then be pasted into a story of a target document so that the target story’s styling scheme over-rides the incoming styles, which by default take on the top most paragraph style?

    An example will make more sense. I’ve designed a restaurant menu for a client who has asked me to add several items. The paragraph styles throughout the stories are labeled Menu Item and Menu Description. I was wondering if there was a way to copy/paste lines (containing those two successive styles) into the Take Out version, (which has an identical paragraph style labeling convention but basically smaller type sizes), and have those incoming lines take on the paragraph styles associated with the story into which I’m pasting the lines?

    I do know about apply next style as an object style, but this question is about simple copy/pasting text from one document to another. In other words, is there a way I can effect a similar magic, saving me the task of manually applying the proper styles to the pasted text?

  • June 6, 2015 at 11:17 am #75867
    Dwayne Harris

    Member

    There’s probably an easier way than what I’m going to suggest, but this is all I can think of (to avoid reapplying styles).

    1) Make a copy of your “Main Menu” file.

    2) Append the style sheets from your “Take Out” file to that copy.

    By doing that, that file copy will now have the “take out” style sheet definitions, which will match your “Take Out” file.

    3) Copy and paste from that file into your “Take Out File.”

    That way, you original file is the same, and the style sheets from the Take Out and the copied Main Menu file will be okay.

    When you’re done copying and pasting, just throw away the Main Menu copy.

    Does this make sense?

  • June 6, 2015 at 11:20 am #75868
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    It does make sense. Good thinkin’ son! Thank you.

    • June 6, 2015 at 11:32 am #75869
      Dwayne Harris

      Member

      Glad to help. I know I’ve had to append stuff before because of situations similar to yours.

      It was the only thing I could think–appending to a copy.

      Good luck and enjoy your weekend.

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