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Nested line styles

Nested line styles - InDesign Tutorial

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Nested line styles

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- [Instructor] In this movie I'll show how to create nested line styles. I have two examples, an everyday use and a more creative use. So, firstly I can use a nested line style to apply small caps or whatever treatment I want to a specific number of lines. And then secondly if I apply a nested line style in conjunction with repeat, I can achieve this kind of effect. Now, I'm going to go to the second page in this document where I have the text in its starting state. So, let's select this one first of all. Paragraph Styles, I'm going to edit the "body first begin" paragraph style. Drop Caps and Nested Styles, let's go and add in the drop cap and then choose the drop cap character style to apply to that. And then when I did something very similar in an earlier movie I came to New Nested Style, but here I want New Line Style. And then I choose small caps in this case for one line. And regardless of the length of my line it will always be in small caps. Now, for the second example this is…

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