Redefining and Deleting Styles

One of the advantages of using paragraph or character styles is that when you redefine the style, it changes all the existing text that has that style applied to it.

To redefine a paragraph or character style:

1.	Double-click the style name in the palette. This opens the Paragraph or Character Style Options dialog box, where you can change the attributes of the style.
2.	Click OK. The style is redefined, and the text updates to reflect the new definition of the style.

To redefine a style by example:

1.	Use the Control palette, Paragraph palette, or Character palette to make any changes to text that has the style applied to it.
2.	Select the modified text.
3.	Choose Redefine Style from the Styles palette. The style is redefined based on the modified example.

You may have styles that you do not need in your InDesign document. You can shorten the styles list by deleting unused styles.

To delete unused styles:

1.	Select the styles you want to delete.
2.	Drag the styles onto the Delete Style icon. or Choose Delete Styles from the Style palette menu. Tip Use Select All Unused Styles to delete all the unused styles from a document.

You can also delete styles that are being used in the document. In that case, you have a choice as to how to handle the text that has the style applied to it.

To delete paragraph styles that are in use:

1.	Select the style you want to delete.
2.	Delete the style as described in the previous exercise. An alert box appears . The Delete Paragraph Style alert box lets you assign another paragraph style to replace a deleted style.
3.	Use the pop-up menu in the alert box to choose [No Paragraph Style], [Basic Paragraph], or one of the other paragraph styles.

To delete character styles that are in use:

1.	Select the style you want to delete.
2.	Delete the style as described in the previous exercise. An alert box appears . The Delete Character Style alert box lets you assign another character style to replace a deleted style.
3.	Use the pop-up menu in the alert box to choose [None] or one of the other character styles.
4.	Check Preserve Formatting to convert the character style into local formatting.