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Saving all styles in one file
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To import styles from other documents
You can import paragraph and character styles from another InDesign document (any version) into the active document. You can determine which styles are loaded, and what should occur if a loaded style has the same name as a style in the current document.
In the Character Styles or Paragraph Styles palette, do one of the following:
Choose Load Character Styles or Load Paragraph Styles in the Styles palette menu or the Control palette menu.
Choose Load All Styles in the Styles palette menu or the Control palette menu to load both character and paragraph styles.
Double-click the InDesign document containing the styles you want to import.
In the Load Styles dialog box, make sure that a check mark appears next to the styles you want to import. If any existing style has the same name as one of the imported styles, choose one of the following options under Conflict With Existing Style, and then click OK:
Use Incoming Style Definition Overwrites the existing style with the loaded style and applies its new attributes to all text in the current document that used the old style. The definitions of the incoming and existing styles are displayed at the bottom of the Load Styles dialog box so that you can view a comparison.
Auto-Rename Renames the loaded style. For example, if both documents have a Subheading style, the loaded style is renamed “Subheading copy” in the current document.
You can also use the Books feature to share styles.
You can import paragraph and character styles from another InDesign document (any version) into the active document. You can determine which styles are loaded, and what should occur if a loaded style has the same name as a style in the current document.
In the Character Styles or Paragraph Styles palette, do one of the following:
Choose Load Character Styles or Load Paragraph Styles in the Styles palette menu or the Control palette menu.
Choose Load All Styles in the Styles palette menu or the Control palette menu to load both character and paragraph styles.
Double-click the InDesign document containing the styles you want to import.
In the Load Styles dialog box, make sure that a check mark appears next to the styles you want to import. If any existing style has the same name as one of the imported styles, choose one of the following options under Conflict With Existing Style, and then click OK:
Use Incoming Style Definition Overwrites the existing style with the loaded style and applies its new attributes to all text in the current document that used the old style. The definitions of the incoming and existing styles are displayed at the bottom of the Load Styles dialog box so that you can view a comparison.
Auto-Rename Renames the loaded style. For example, if both documents have a Subheading style, the loaded style is renamed “Subheading copy” in the current document.
You can also use the Books feature to share styles.
If you just want a template with all your styles, start a new blank doc. Import all the paragraph and character styles that you want. Then Save As and pick Indesign Template. The resulting file will be ".indt" instead of ".indd".
If you open that for new docs all your sryles will be there. You just have to remember to Save As a regular Indesign document. It's best to do that Save As when you first open the doc do you're working on your doc and not the template.
Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4
If you open that for new docs all your sryles will be there. You just have to remember to Save As a regular Indesign document. It's best to do that Save As when you first open the doc do you're working on your doc and not the template.
Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4
Ekwoman
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- Jul 16, 2006
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There is a strange bug I run into with Templates. How they should work is this: you double-click on a template file, the file that opens is a new, untitled document. What actually happens is that I get a copy of the template file. Argh!
If you drag the icon of the template file onto your InDesign application icon, it will open a new untitled document. That way, you're safe even if you just hit Save (instead of Save As), since it will do a Save As, because this is the first time saving the file. Make sense? Hope that helps.
If you drag the icon of the template file onto your InDesign application icon, it will open a new untitled document. That way, you're safe even if you just hit Save (instead of Save As), since it will do a Save As, because this is the first time saving the file. Make sense? Hope that helps.
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