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Styles housekeeping - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Advanced Styles
Styles housekeeping
- [Instructor] Throughout the course of a project, especially a large project, your styles panel can get untidy. It's a good idea to periodically do some housekeeping. Firstly, to purge any unwanted styles, come to your paragraph styles panel, choose select all unused, and then delete. You can do the same thing on the character styles panel and the objects style panel. This is most necessary at the end of a project before the final is archived or is repurposed as the template for a similar project. Secondly, you can arrange your styles into groups. As well as keeping like styles together, this gives you more space to work with on the paragraphs styles panel. Making sure I have nothing selected, I'm going to select theses three body styles, and I will right click on any one of them, and choose new group from styles. Now I'm going to name the group. Because style naming is case sensitive, I can name that with a capital b, and it's not going to conflict with the lower case b that I have…
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The [Basic Paragraph] style3m 41s
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Imported styles1m 32s
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Break the line to a style2m 25s
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Manage overrides4m 40s
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Share and reuse styles4m 31s
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Create a default set of paragraph and character styles2m 19s
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Add a keyboard shortcut51s
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Use Quick Apply to apply styles1m 42s
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Use the Eyedropper to apply styles1m 25s
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Styles housekeeping3m 36s
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