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MARCH 18, 2004 Nested Styles in Adobe InDesign CS  When you're laying out copy, you'll often encounter situations in which you'll use the same repeating character styles over multiple paragraphs. This is true of catalogs, buyer's guides, ad layouts or even magazine articles that contain stylized lists, such as in a sidebar. With previous versions of Adobe InDesign, the process of applying styles to such a list would have been a tedious one. But InDesign CS introduces a new function for nesting styles within the context of a paragraph so that you can apply multiple sequential styles over multiple paragraphs with the single click of a button.How's that work? [an error occurred while processing this directive] For this example, we'll be building a sidebar for a magazine article: "Top-7 Tips for Backyard Koi Care" (culled from my weeks of experience at having a koi pond in my backyard). What I want to be able to do is to select all of the body copy in this sidebar  and format it into this:  with the click of a button. No problem. Nesting character styles within a paragraph style is essentially a two-step process: You first define your character styles, and then you define your paragraph style, telling InDesign where the nested character styles will appear. The initial setup might take you a little while, but, in the end, you'll be able to apply your styles across a whole range of paragraphs, saving yourself a lot of busywork in the process.
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