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Add a nested style

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Add a nested style

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- [Instructor] Nested styles allow you to embed, or nest, character styles inside paragraph styles. While it's possible to build very complicated nested styles, it's usually best to keep them simple. The most useful nested styles are those that are easy to set up, and that you use frequently. I'm going to come to my last spread, and over here, I have a sidebar article. Let me zoom in on this, Command + Spacebar, click and drag. So, here, I have an example of a nested style. This is a run-in head, where the text continues after the head on the same line. Without a nested style, I would need to apply the paragraph formats, and then come and select however many words there were in the head and apply a character style. With a nested style, I can apply both formats in one click. So, I'm going to start by coming to the Paragraph Styles panel and deleting this paragraph style, and setting it back to sidebar_no_indent, which is its parent style. To recreate it when everything else about the…

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