Creating a Consistent Look

When you create a collection of related publications, such as those for a specific event or organization, make sure that all the publications look similar. By using consistent choices of colors, design elements, and text formatting, your readers will instantly recognize that all your publications are related to the same effort or company. Publisher's Catalog and color schemes can help you achieve consistent designs and colors. Use text styles , which store text formatting settings, to ensure your text formatting is consistent in all your publications. After creating a text style in a publication, you can import the style to other publications.

Create a New Style by Example

Select the text with the style you want.

Click the Format menu, and then click Styles And Formatting.

Click Create New Style.

Enter a name for the new style.

Click each of the formatting options, and then change the formatting settings for the new style.

Click OK.

Apply a Style

Select the text or text frame to which you want to apply a style.

Click the Style list arrow on the Formatting toolbar.

Select a style.

Delete a Style

Click the Format menu, and then click Styles And Formatting.

Point to the style you want to remove, and then click the list arrow next to it.

Click Delete.

Click Yes to confirm that you want to delete the style.

Click the Close button on the task pane.

Import a Style

Click the Format menu, and then click Styles and Formatting.

Click Import Styles.

Double-click the publication that contains the styles you want to import.

Click the Close button on the task pane.

Did You Know?

You can pick up and apply a style . Select the word or text object whose format you want to use. Click the Format Painter button on the Standard toolbar, and then select the text to which you want to apply the format.

You can change a style . Click the Format menu, click Styles And Formatting, click the list arrow for the style you want to change, click Modify, change the style, and then click OK.