From the course: InDesign: Typography Part 2

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Parent and child styles

Parent and child styles - InDesign Tutorial

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Parent and child styles

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- [Voiceover] It's a theme running throughout many of InDesign's features that you can base one thing on another and create a parent/child relationship. That's very much the case with Styles, and in this very simple example I have a hierarchy of styles, heading one, two, and three. Heading three is based on heading two; heading two is based on heading one. That's the parent. If I edit the parent, then the offspring will be affected and that could be a very powerful feature. It can also be potentially a very destructive feature if you're not aware what's happening. So I'm going to recreate this relationship that we have in the column on the left. But before I do that, I also want to show you how we can use the redefine style feature because I don't like the way my body text currently looks. I could edit the style. In this case, I'm going to edit the paragraph. I'll change the font and I will change the leading value. Currently that's now body plus body with overrides, but I'll…

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