Moving to InDesign

Chapter 26. Paragraph and Character Styles

You’ll be happy to know that InDesign styles meet or beat the capabilities of the paragraph and character styles in both QuarkXPress and PageMaker. However, it handles character styles in a very different way than XPress does (PageMaker doesn’t offer character-based styles). Also, InDesign splits styles into two separate palettes: Paragraph Styles and Character Styles. And unlike XPress, empty style palettes don’t have any default styles, such as Normal.

Creating Paragraph Styles

To open the Paragraph Styles palette, choose Paragraph Styles from the Type menu or press its keyboard shortcut, F11. The fastest way to create a new style is to click the Create New Style button at the bottom of the Paragraph ...