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Get the Nesting Instinct: InDesign's Nested Styles Auto-Format Multiple Paragraphs

How-Tos: Written by Michael Murphy on June 8, 2009

Before InDesign CS, no page layout program allowed character styles to work within paragraph styles. The two styles were completely independent of one another. But now you can prebuild one or more character styles into a paragraph style and trigger those character styles with specific conditions; e.g., bold the beginning text in a paragraph until an em dash appears. What character styles are nested in the paragraph, in what order, and what triggers the switch between them, is entirely up to you!

InDesign How-to: Mind Your Table Manners

How-Tos: Written by Michael Murphy on November 7, 2007

The best tables communicate their information efficiently and look good doing it. This article doesn't only explain where to find InDesign's table tools. It spends even more time on the design principles behind the most successful tables.

Review: Adobe InDesign CS3

Reviews: Written by Michael Murphy on April 20, 2007

Go ahead...make my layout. This new version makes short work of design and production tasks across the board.