Tip of the Day writer Jeff Witchel shares some of his favorite InDesign tips about formatting with paragraph styles palette and the next style feature.
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Jeff Witchel graduated from Pratt Institute in 1973 with a B.F.A. (Cum Laude) in Advertising Design and Visual Communications. He has been an award-winning advertising art director, writer, designer, illustrator, and TV producer ever since. Before starting his own advertising agency in New Jersey, Jeff built his career at top New York ad agencies such as Young & Rubicam, Grey Advertising, and Wells, Rich, Greene. Over the years, he has created award-winning work for many clients including AT&T, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Jell-O Pudding, The Plaza Hotel, and Pfizer. His many prestigious awards include N.Y. Art Directors Club Gold Award, One Show Gold Award, N.J. Art Directors Club Award, multiple Andy Awards, Graphis Annual, numerous readership awards, plus an Emmy Award nomination. Jeff is a self-taught computer artist with over 19 years of experience. His initial introduction to the computer was with PageMaker, but he switched to Quark 1.0 when it was first introduced in 1987. Having arrived on the desktop publishing scene so early, Jeff became the "go to" guy for answers when others started getting into computer graphics. As an Adobe Certified Expert, he's provided online support for Adobe and is now an Adobe Certified Training Provider for both Adobe Illustrator CS2 and Adobe InDesign CS2. Jeff is one of just a handful of Adobe Certified Instructors in the New York metropolitan area. He also is a Quark Certified Expert in QuarkXPress 6 as well as a master of Adobe Photoshop and related applications. He counts among his training clients ad agencies, design studios, magazines, illustrators, and photographers in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.
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This tip was the bomb!
I was wondering if there is a way to get the tips of the day in writing to add to my notebook? As a student, it is great reference material when I forget…which happens with minimal sleep and major info input at one time.
Thank you again!
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Cool tip!
I see what you’ve done what if you have multiple paragraphs, and don’t want the second paragraph to revert back to the red headline, but keeping the same Garamond style is there a solution to this?
Hi John,
You could have three Styles, two of which have exactly the same formatting but with different names.
Start with “Title Style” with a Next Style of “Copy 1.”
“Copy 1″ has a Next Style of “Copy 2.”
“Copy 2″ (with the same formatting as Copy 1) has a Next Style of “Title Style.”
This will create a pattern of three Styles which will loop continuously. Both Copy Styles are the same formatting.
Hope this answers your question.
Jeff
I neep an example of a Exemplification paragraph.
Hi Jeff, great tutorial.
Do you or anyone else know if there is a way to use Quick Apply to, well quickly apply a paragraph style but also use the ‘then Next Style’ command?
I can’t find a way to do this with any combination of modifier keys. This is a shame as it seems you would have to choose between using Quick Apply without having the apply next function or no longer use Quick Apply so that you can use the function from the Paragraph Styles palette.
Any suggestions?
Hi Lewis,
I have not been able to find a way to apply Next Style using Quick Apply. If anyone else finds it, I love to see it.
Best,
Jeff
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Hi Jeff super great tutorial did think ll never get there on my own
one thing is sort of hard to understand, when I restart inDesign all Paragraph styles are gone did try all to save them but nothing
how do I save them?
10x
Best Danny
Ouch.
everybody’s so jazzed by this and I can’t get it to work. I repeated the steps to set it up 3 times, but what happened repeatedly was that my title paragraph switched back to “basic paragraph.” The body paragraph I designed worked fine. Any A to my Q Jeff? Or anybody else please. ‘ere’s ‘oping you check this often: my trial InDesign is only good for another week (can’t afford it till I have my student ID). tyvm, clare h.
Hello!
And how can I apply the next style in grep/change if I have plenty of paragraphes and don’t want to make one by one?
how can i now which copy using which style when i have plenty of paragraph style sheet
For us Quark loyalists still struggling with the switch, I thank you.
thank you so much for the great tips…. i am new to InDesign…..HOW can i get ALL the previous tips & videos? Thans again Best Luck to You
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Just oohed and ahhed over this and delightedly formated an entire calendar of events page. Is it terribly geeky that this makes my day?
Awesome tip – thank you! A brilliant time-saver for sure.