Chapter 15. Text and Object Styles


Last year I taught an InDesign class to a group of designers that included a young woman who was responsible for a yearly 100-page catalog of her company's products. When I got to the part of the class where I showed what text styles could do, she began to cry.

I'd never had a student break down and cry in a class, so I was very concerned. I didn't know what to do. "What's wrong?" I asked.

It took her a while to speak, but she eventually explained that it was "those styles." Turns out she had never been taught what styles did and she had been formatting the thousands of entries in the catalog by hand.

She now realized just how much time she could have saved by using text styles. Of course, this was before InDesign added object styles.

I dedicate this chapter to all of you who have been slaving away, working without text and object styles. May the techniques you learn here bring smiles, not tears, to your faces.



InDesign CS2 for Macintosh and Windows(c) Visual QuickStart Guide
InDesign CS4 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide
ISBN: 0321573579
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 309
Authors: Sandee Cohen

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