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                <br clear="both" /><div id="minitoc"><div class="t"><div class="b"><div class="l"><div class="r"><div class="bl"><div class="br"><div class="tl"><div class="tr"><div><h3>Contents [<a href="#" onclick="return toggleMiniToc('minitoc-links', this);" class="hideLink">Hide</a>]</h3><ul id="minitoc-links"><li><p><a href="#WSC250E654-0EDC-4a29-BE13-A31E38E8A4F7"><h4 class="topictitle4">Define paragraph or character styles</h4>
</a></p></li><li><p><a href="#WS15F28658-9D80-4fca-AB52-754957BDD2C4a"><h4 class="topictitle4">Base one paragraph or character style on another</h4>
</a></p></li><li><p><a href="#WS6C2C5076-AC2D-4db3-B16C-F14CAF813CB3a"><h4 class="topictitle4">Import styles from other documents</h4>
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<div id="WSC250E654-0EDC-4a29-BE13-A31E38E8A4F7" class="nochunk"><a name="WSC250E654-0EDC-4a29-BE13-A31E38E8A4F7"></a><h3 class="topictitle3">Define paragraph or character styles</h3><div><ol><li class="stepexpand"><span>If you want to base a new style on the
formatting of existing text, select that text or place the insertion
point in&#160;it.</span> <p>If a group is selected in the Styles panel, the new style
will be part of that group.</p>
</li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>Choose New Paragraph Style from the Paragraph Styles
panel menu, or choose New Character Style from the Character Styles
panel menu.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>For Style Name, type a name for your new style.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>For Based On, select which style the current style is
based on.</span> <div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:  </span>The Based On option lets you link styles to each other,
so that changes in one style ripple through the styles that are
based on it. By default, new styles are based on [No Paragraph Style]
or [None], or on the style of any currently selected text.</div>
</li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>For Next Style (Paragraph Styles panel only), specify
which style is applied after the current style when you press Enter
or Return. </span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>To add a keyboard shortcut, position the insertion point
in the Shortcut box, and make sure Num Lock is turned on. Then hold
down any combination of Shift, Alt, and Ctrl (Windows),
or Shift, Option, and Command (Mac&#160;OS),
and press a number on the numeric keypad. You cannot use letters
or non-keypad numbers for defining style shortcuts.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>If you want the new style to be applied to the selected
text, select Apply Style To Selection.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>To specify the formatting attributes, click a category
(such as Basic Character Formats) on the left, and specify the attributes
you want to add to your style.</span> <div class="tip"><img src="images/tip_help.png" />When specifying a Character Color in the
Style Options dialog box, you can create a new color by double-clicking
the fill or stroke box.</div></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>For character styles, attributes you do not specify are
ignored; when the style is applied, text will retain the paragraph
style formatting for that attribute. To remove an attribute setting
from a character style: </span><ul><li><p>From a setting’s menu, choose (Ignore).</p>
</li>
<li><p>In a text box, delete the option text.</p>
</li>
<li><p>In a check box, click until you see a small box
(Windows) or a hyphen (-) (Mac&#160;OS).</p>
</li>
<li><p>For a character color, hold down Ctrl (Windows)
or Command (Mac&#160;OS) and click the color swatch.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>When you’ve finished specifying the formatting attributes,
click&#160;OK.</span></li>
</ol>
<div class="section"><p>Styles you create appear only in the current document.
If no document is open, the styles you create will appear in all
new documents.</p>
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<div id="WS15F28658-9D80-4fca-AB52-754957BDD2C4a" class="nochunk"><a name="WS15F28658-9D80-4fca-AB52-754957BDD2C4a"></a><h3 class="topictitle3">Base one paragraph or character style on another</h3><div><div class="section"><p>Many document designs feature hierarchies
of styles sharing certain attributes. The headings and subheads,
for example, often use the same font. You can easily create links
between similar styles by creating a base, or <dfn class="term">parent</dfn>,
style. When you edit the parent style, the <dfn class="term">child</dfn> styles
will change as well. You can then edit the child styles to distinguish
them from the parent style.</p>
<div class="tip"><img src="images/tip_help.png" />To create a style
that’s nearly identical to another style, but without the parent-child
relationship, use the Duplicate Style command and then edit the
copy.</div></div>
<ol><li class="stepexpand"><span>Create a new style. </span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>In the New Paragraph Style or New Character Style dialog
box, select the parent style in the Based On menu. The new style
becomes the child style.</span> <p>By default, new styles are based on [No Paragraph Style]
or [None], or on the style of any currently selected text.</p>
</li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>Specify formatting in the new style to distinguish it
from the style on which it’s based. For example, you might want
to make the font used in a subheading slightly smaller than the
one used in the heading (parent) style.</span></li>
</ol>
<div class="section"><div class="tip"><img src="images/tip_help.png" />If you make changes to the formatting
of a child style and decide you want to start over, click Reset
To Base. That restores the child style’s formatting to be identical to
the style on which it’s based. Then you can specify new formatting.
Similarly, if you change the Based On style of the child style,
the child style definition is updated to match its new parent style.</div></div>
</div></div>
<div id="WS6C2C5076-AC2D-4db3-B16C-F14CAF813CB3a" class="nochunk"><a name="WS6C2C5076-AC2D-4db3-B16C-F14CAF813CB3a"></a><h3 class="topictitle3">Import styles from other documents</h3><div><div class="section"><p>You can import paragraph and
character styles from another InDesign document (any version) into
the active document. During import, you can determine which styles
are loaded and what should occur if a loaded style has the same
name as a style in the current document. You can also import styles
from an InCopy document.</p>
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<ol><li class="stepexpand"><span>In the Character Styles or Paragraph Styles panel,
do one of the following:</span><ul><li><p>Choose Load Character Styles or Load Paragraph
Styles in the Styles panel menu.</p>
</li>
<li><p>Choose Load All Text Styles in the Styles panel
menu to load both character and paragraph styles.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>Double-click the InDesign document containing the styles
you want to import.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>In the Load Styles dialog box, make sure that a check
mark appears next to the styles you want to import. If any existing
style has the same name as one of the imported styles, choose one
of the following options under Conflict With Existing Style, and
then click&#160;OK:</span> <dl><dt class="dlterm">Use Incoming Style Definition</dt>
<dd>Overwrites the existing style with the loaded style and
applies its new attributes to all text in the current document that
used the old style. The definitions of the incoming and existing
styles are displayed at the bottom of the Load Styles dialog box
so that you can view a comparison.</dd><p class="dlseparator"></p><dt class="dlterm">Auto-Rename</dt>
<dd>Renames the loaded style. For example, if both documents
have a Subheading style, the loaded style is renamed “Subheading
copy” in the current document.</dd><p class="dlseparator"></p></dl>
</li>
</ol>
<div class="section"><p>You
can also use the Books feature to share styles. (See <a href="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6cbda.html">Synchronize book documents</a>.)</p>
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