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                    About character and paragraph styles
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                <div><div class="section"><p>A <dfn class="term">character style</dfn> is a
collection of character formatting attributes that can be applied
to text in a single step. A <dfn class="term">paragraph style</dfn> includes
both character and paragraph formatting attributes, and can be applied
to a paragraph or range of paragraphs. Paragraph styles and character
styles are found on separate panels. Paragraph and characters styles
are sometimes called <dfn class="term">text styles</dfn>.</p>
<p>When you change the formatting of a
style, all text to which the style has been applied will be updated
with the new format.</p>
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<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">[Basic Paragraph] styles</h4><p>By default, each
new document contains a [Basic Paragraph] style that is applied to
text you type. You can edit this style, but you can’t rename or
delete it. You can rename and delete styles that you create. You
can also select a different default style to apply to text.</p>
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<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Character style attributes</h4><p>Unlike paragraph
styles, character styles do not include all the formatting attributes
of selected text. Instead, when you create a character style, InDesign makes
only those attributes that are different from the formatting of
the selected text part of the style. That way, you can create a
character style that, when applied to text, changes only some attributes,
such as the font family and size, ignoring all other character attributes.
If you want other attributes to be part of the style, add them when
editing the style.</p>
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<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Next Style</h4><p>You can automatically apply
styles as you type text. If, for example, your document’s design
calls for the style “body text” to follow a heading style named “heading&#160;1,”
you can set the Next Style option for “heading&#160;1” to “body
text.” After you’ve typed a paragraph styled with “heading&#160;1,”
pressing Enter or Return starts a new paragraph styled with “body
text.”</p>
<p>If you use the context menu when applying a style to
two or more paragraphs, you can cause the parent style to be applied
to the first paragraph and the Next Style to be applied to the additional
paragraphs. (See <a href="WS0622B116-EC17-48e0-B553-8151B1E03F02a.html">Apply styles</a>.)</p>
<p>To use the Next Style feature, choose a style
from the Next Style menu when you’re creating or editing a style.</p>
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<div class="section"><p>For a video on using text styles, see <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/vid0076" target="_blank">www.adobe.com/go/vid0076</a>.</p>
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