InDesign: How to Apply Styles Quickly to Formatted Text (Video Tutorial)

In this InDesign video, Julie Shaffer shows how to take text with existing formatting—either from previous use in InDesign or from a Word Import—and assign current styles to it. She shows that by looking at the formatting that is unique to selected text, you can use Find/Change to find text with that formatting, apply your desired styles, and even save queries to easily repeat the search operation.

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[flytetime]

Good tips! I occasionally reformat books and have to replace old styles with new styles. I set my new styles in red so when I replace the text I can quickly scan through the book and if everything is red I know I’ve replaced everything. I then delete/replace red from the swatch panel with black. It helps if book is all typeset in one colour.

[GlenShannon]

Another way to transfer from the imported styles to the document styles is simply to trash the bad style and replace with the good one. Unless you need to keep the bad one for some other reason, it might as well be gone and keep your palette cleaner.