If you find yourself creating the same colors, paragraph style sheets, and character style sheets over and over again, create them with no documents open . They will be available to all future documents. To create these elements, use the New command in the palette menus for the following panes: Swatches (F5), Character Styles (Shift+F11), and Paragraph Styles (F11). You can also use the palette menus ' Load commands to import colors and styles from existing documents instead of creating them from scratch. See the New Style and Load Paragraph Styles in Figure 3-20.