Chapter 11. Style Management

INDESIGN HAS A POWERHOUSE combination of styles and style-related features. As you start to make styles an integral part of your projects, you’ll find that you have more and more styles to manage. Unfortunately, for all that InDesign has in abundance for style capabilities, it lacks any dedicated method for managing, organizing, unifying, or reporting on the styles in a document or across multiple documents.

However, there are some workarounds and organizational options you can use to compensate a bit for this limitation, as well as some document housekeeping you can do to keep your styles from getting out of control. All these methods apply to character, paragraph, cell, table, and object styles, even if the specific ...

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