InDesign CS3 Style Sheets Training DVD

1. How Style Automation Works

• How style automation works and why every file needs it
• Installing the DekeKeys shortcuts
• Meet the Eyedropper tool
• Loading new attributes
• Lifting some attributes (and not others)
• Eyedropper FYIs
• The five kinds of style sheets
• Meet the paragraph style
• Applying the Find/Change command
• The style sheet domino effect
• Meet the object style
• Appending a paragraph style to an object style
• The power of the local override

2. Creating and Applying Paragraph Styles

• The most common and useful style sheet
• Creating a paragraph style
• The Paragraph Style Options dialog box
• Assigning a keypad shortcut
• The better way to create a style
• Basing one style on another
• Assigning a Next Style setting
• Creating a closed style loop
• Using the Quick Apply function
• Formatting an entire story in one click
• Auto-formatting as you type

3. Updating Paragraph Styles

• Style sheets are dynamic
• Changing the font for multiple style sheets
• Updating a shared attribute
• Type style, skew, and tracking
• Clearing and integrating local overrides
• Removing widows with Balance Ragged Lines
• Additional tricks for clearing overrides

4. Augmenting Text with Character Styles

• Styling words, numbers, and symbols
• Organizing style sheets
• Character styles protect overrides
• Creating a character style
• Prioritizing style sheet shortcuts
• Applying your new character style
• Updating two styles in one pass
• When in doubt, be obsessive

5. Employing Nested and Numbered Styles

• Character styles on steroids
• Repeating style elements
• Establishing a nested style
• Setting the range of a nested style
• Troubleshooting the nested range
• Assigning automatic numbers
• Assigning automatic bullets
• Starting and restarting numbered sequences
• Nesting a number or bullet style
• Setting precise guidelines
• Right-aligning numbers
• Center-aligning bullets
• Auto-numbering figures
• Creating a custom Number setting
• Specifying a chapter number
• Numbering across threaded frames
• What you can and can't do

6. Using Table and Cell Styles

• If you make tables, listen up
• A tale of two tables: Introducing the document
• Creating a cell style
• Adjusting the Inset values
• Formatting the body of a table
• Creating and applying column styles
• Creating an all-inclusive table style
• Converting and styling a table
• Fixing formatting errors
• Fixing row height and column width
• An argument for independent cell styles
• Making a dependent cell style
• Selectively applying a cell style

7. Creating and Employing Object Styles

• The convergence of very nearly everything
• Updating a style from the Find Font command
• Step, Repeat, and Distribute
• Adding text; removing style
• Object-level formatting attributes
• Creating an object style
• Creating paired paragraph styles
• Nesting paired paragraph styles
• Inline and above line graphics
• Creating an anchored object
• Viewing frames and threads
• Creating an anchored object style
• Establishing anchored object defaults
• Problems? Fit the frame to the contents
• Employing a highly selective object style
• The best way to anchor objects
• Moving and anchoring text and objects

Conclusion

• Goodbye