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Exploring style groups

Exploring style groups - InDesign Tutorial

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Exploring style groups

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I want to introduce you to a feature in InDesign that I have really mixed feelings about. On the one hand, it's a feature that can be a huge help in organizing your Paragraph and Character Styles, especially when you have a lot of them. But On the other hand, the feature is flawed in some ways that makes me cautious in how or when I would use it. The feature is called Style Groups, and it's a way to group your styles together into folders. This document, the Roux Catalog file from the Exercise Folder, has a bunch of styles. If I open the Paragraph Styles panel, you'll see them all listed here. This is a relatively simple document. I've worked with some InDesign files that have dozens of paragraph styles in them. But in this case, I'd like to simplify things by putting these paragraph styles into folders. The folders, or style groups as InDesign calls them, show up here at the bottom of the InDesign Paragraph Styles panel. But if I just click that button, it just adds a new folder at…

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