If you haven't tapped into the nested styles feature of Adobe InDesign, you're in for a treat. Nested styles combine paragraph and character formatting into a single sophisticated style that can be applied at the click of a mouse.

A key factor in setting a nested style is choosing what character or text element will trigger the various formats. For example, you can tell InDesign to start with bold text then, when it encounters a period, switch to plain. After one sentence, change the style to italic.

That scenario works fine for predictable lists, but what if you use punctuation other than a period? Can you still apply a nested style? Yes, you can.

In this tip from Adobe InDesign Evangelist Tim Cole, you'll learn the hidden secret of using multiple delimiters in InDesign's nested styles.

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