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InDesign Tips: Using Multiple Delimiters for Nested Styles
Without a doubt, one of the niftiest features of InDesign CS is the ability to create nested styles that apply complex paragraph and character formatting with one click. But did you know about its wildcard setting? Adobe's Tim Cole reveals the hidden secret of nested styles.
Written by Tim Cole on January 28, 2005
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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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