InDesign: How to Format InDesign Pages Fast Using Styles (Video Tutorial)

In this Three Minutes Max video, Laurie Ruhlin shows how to quickly style an entire page full of text. Using paragraph styles—incorporating the “next style” feature—as well as object styles, she formats her page with just a couple of clicks..

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[abbyzilla]

OK, holy cow. I've been using InDesign for 14 years... the WRONG WAY. I "didn't have time" to learn more and, very obviously, did NOT know what I didn't know! I could have saved hundreds of hours if I'd have had you in 2010!
My goodness, that demo was the most succinct I've ever seen. You showed EXACTLY how to do it... "it" being a bunch of different things. You taught me more tricks and covered more ground in 3 minutes than most videos do in 45 minutes... and AIN'T NOBODY GOT TIME FOR THAT!
A+ Thank you thank you thank you thank you!

[ZoranImsiragic]

That is the power of InDesign! It should be named InControl because it gives us so much control over content!
Once, I managed to layout the whole book with the next style option.

[alexdamaceno]

The “Apply Next Style” magic saved me a lot of time in multiple occasions…

[flytetime]

Learning object styles and combining them with paragraph styles, applying next styles and then having an option to position the text frame anywhere on the page with a keyword shortcut is a big time saver. I think there’s a bit of a misconception that the name object styles indicates that it can only be used for creating shapes, but they are far more powerful than that.

[gobo]

This is awesome. Is it possible to get a copy of this document to closer see how all these elements function together? It went a little fast and it would be nice to dissect this if doable. Love all of this :)