Using nested styles

Nested styles are a useful way of automatically applying character styles from within a paragraph style. If you apply a nested style, it will be applied from the beginning of each paragraph that the paragraph style has been applied to, through to a point that you have set in the nested style settings. If you do more than one nested style, each new nested style will continue from where the last one ended.

In this recipe, we will look at using nested styles to restyle the first word of a paragraph so that the first word and the first letter within it are styled differently from the rest of the paragraph.

Getting ready

In order to complete this recipe, simply open InDesign on your system and create a new document with 12 pages, as shown in the Creating a new document recipe in Chapter 1. You should be comfortable creating and applying paragraph styles as shown in the Creating paragraph styles recipe and character styles as shown in the Creating character styles...