Apr. 24, 2009
Once styles are saved within your document they can be easily loaded into your next job…
It wouldn’t really be practical to create styles within one document and then have to re-create them in the next. Once you save a document that contains paragraph and character styles, you can use those styles in any document you like from that point on.
From either the “Paragraph Styles” or “Character Styles” panel, open the fly out menu (located at the top right of the panel) and choose “Load All Text Styles…”. A dialogue box will appear, asking you to navigate to the InDesign document that you’re wanting to load the styles from. Once located, select it and choose “Open”.
A “Load Styles” dialogue box will appear. Make sure you have checked any of the styles you’re wanting to bring into your document, any that you don’t want should remain unchecked. The way you tell which ones are paragraph styles and which are character styles, is by looking at the little icon next to the check box. Paragraph Styles are represented with a paragraph icon whilst character styles are indicated with an upper case letter A. You’ll notice also if you click on one of the styles you can see its attributes within the “Incoming Style Definition” box.
If you are bringing in a style that has the same name as one already in your current document, from the “Conflict with Existing Style” column, you can choose either “Auto Rename” or use “Incoming Style Definition”.
For more information on loading styles via Adobe help click here.
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