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Nested Styles
By Cari Jansen | September 30, 2006
Digitip 047 - Adobe InDesign CS2
Nested styles really ARE better than sliced bread… and I know because I love my breads 
They really provide an incredibly powerful tool for text formatting. Where in the past you might have been using Character Styles to format part of your text, you can - with the help of Nested Styles - apply selected character styles within a paragraph style.
About the tip
The tip takes you through a step-by-step “how to create a nested style” example. Starting out by generating a paragraph style, applying this style and then creating character styles. The tip finishes off show-casing how the character styles are nested within paragraph styles enabling very powerful formatting controls in InDesign.
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March 29th, 2008 at 12:42 am
great tip… but my nested styles ALWAYS do weird things. I cannot figure it.
March 30th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
trick is to create and apply the paragraph style first.
If you’ve already formatted your paragraph with some text that is going to be the nested character style, then ensure you place your cursor in a text component that does not contain character style formatting when creating the paragraph style.
Next create the character styles, and follow this applying the paragraph style (clear overrides) and edit the style (basically assign the character styles as nested styles), if you have the preview option enabled you can check whether things work as appropriate.