try creating nested styles and using the “end style” character to move from one nested style to the next

David,
Great article on the topic of converting to CMYK.
Thanks

Jacqueline-you wrote:
“I can think of one advantage if you convert in Photoshop you can see the effect on color and further adjust in CMYK if needed.”
Yes- that is the reason. I have had some nasty surprises with “difficult” colors.
However, that was some years back, and I switched to CMYK workflow at that time, and for that reason.
David’s article points out that technology has come a long way since then, and certainly placing as RGB saves quite a bit of time, especially on large projects.
I am planning to take his advice, but keep a watchful eye out for images with difficult colors.
Mike

Jacqueline,
In InDesign
FILE>EXPORT Choose Adobe PDF (Print) in the FORMAT box
Give your PDF a name and a destination folder
SAVE
The EXPORT ADOBE PDF dialog opens
In the left-side column choose OUTPUT
In COlor Conversion choose CONVERT TO DESTINATION
In Destination choose U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2 – or a different profile if required—-as long as it is a CMYK profile
( The default for CMYK is U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2, which is a specific CMYK setting for a web printing press and coated paper.
Good luck

Jeremy,
Have you considered creating an InDesign Package of your document?
The automatically created links folder should give you what you need.
Let’s know if it works.
Mike

Hi Manuel,
You can use paragraph styles with character styles “embedded” by using the DROP CAPS AND NESTED STYLES feature in paragraph styles. That will let you control the color of your text.
You can use Paragraph Shading to control the color and shape of the colored tabs.

Here’s one way that I have done something similar that might work for you.
You would have to do this method page by page.
Create a new third document. Set up a layer called TEXT and a layer called IMAGES. (You can call them whatever- but the naming must be identical in both source and destination)
In your two source docs ensure that the layers are identically named.
(I’m assuming that all text is on one layer in that doc, and all images are on the same layer in the images source doc)
Make sure that you have turned on PASTE REMEMBERS LAYERS
Then, page by page, select all images on the TEXT source and paste into the new master, and select all Images on the corresponding IMAGE source doc, and paste that into the new master.

Depending on the way that the superimposed layers align, you may need to switch on IGNORE TEXT WRAP if your images are using text wrap.
This method will still work if your source docs use multiple layers, but it is critical that the name of the layer exactly matches the name of the layer onto which it will be pasted.

Also- depending on exactly how your source docs are set up, you could use one of them as the new master and paste from the other—a bit quicker, but for something like this, creating a new third doc to be master is probably a bit safer.
Good luck