Quick tip:
If you work in Books with multiple file projects, often times you need to update a single style across the book without effecting anything else. InDesign does not allow for this. However if you take your new style into a clean document, making sure to remove anything that is unwanted including swatches, etc... And, it is also important that you only update the most basic level of the style, for instance it you have a character style that is part of a nested paragraph style, only update the character style. Save out this style document. Add this style document to your book. Set the style document as your style default and then synch your whole book to this new style document. By doing this you will only effect the particular style across all documents, and it will update in all instances with out effectng anything else.
Specializing style documents like this can also work for Swatches, though you can choose to synch only swatches in your book through the synch prefs, its sometimes nice to start with something clean and prepped for a specific purpose.
If you work in Books with multiple file projects, often times you need to update a single style across the book without effecting anything else. InDesign does not allow for this. However if you take your new style into a clean document, making sure to remove anything that is unwanted including swatches, etc... And, it is also important that you only update the most basic level of the style, for instance it you have a character style that is part of a nested paragraph style, only update the character style. Save out this style document. Add this style document to your book. Set the style document as your style default and then synch your whole book to this new style document. By doing this you will only effect the particular style across all documents, and it will update in all instances with out effectng anything else.
Specializing style documents like this can also work for Swatches, though you can choose to synch only swatches in your book through the synch prefs, its sometimes nice to start with something clean and prepped for a specific purpose.