“Adobe InDesign Styles” Table of Contents

Posted: March 25th, 2009 | Author: Michael Murphy | Filed under: News & Announcements | No Comments »

Adobe InDesign Styles is at the printer now. The final Table of Contents, including two bonus chapters available online is listed below.

PART 1: TEXT STYLES
Chapter 1 The Fundamentals: Paragraph and Character Styles

• Character Style Attributes
• Paragraph Style Attributes
• Working with Paragraph and Character Styles

Chapter 2 Nesting and Sequencing Styles

• Nested Styles
• Advanced Nesting Techniques
• Nested Line Styles
• Paragraph Styles in Sequence: The Next Style Option
• Establishing Relationships: Based-on Styles

Chapter 3 Automatic Styling with GREP

• GREP Styles vs. Nested Styles
• Metacharacters
• Creating a GREP Style
• Defining Expressions for GREP Styles
• Chapter 4 Auto-styling Imported Word and Excel Files
• Working with Word Files
• Working with Excel Files

PART 2: STYLES BEYOND TEXT
Chapter 5 Object Styles

• One-stop Shopping for Attributes
• Default Object Styles
• Similarities Between Object Styles and Text Styles
• Differences Between Object Styles and Text Styles
• Combining Paragraph Styles and Object Styles
• Flexible Object Styles Every InDesign User Should Have

Chapter 6 Table and Cell Styles

• Table Styling
• Table Styles vs. Cell Styles
• Working with Table Style Limitations
• Maintaining Links and Updating Tables

PART 3: COMBINING STYLES WITH OTHER FEATURES
Chapter 7 Drop Caps, Bullets, and Numbering

• Drop Caps
• Bullets and Numbering

Chapter 8 Advanced Find/Change with Styles

• Finding and Changing Text Styles
• GREP Find/Change vs. GREP Styles
• Saving Queries
• Advanced Style-based Search Techniques
• Find/Change for Objects

Chapter 9 Generating Dynamic Content with Styles

• Tables of Contents
• Running Header Text Variables
• Cross-references

Chapter 10 Styles, CSS, and XML

• Export for Dreamweaver
• Styles and XML
• Importing XML
• XSLT: Styles on Steroids

Chapter 11 Style Management

• Style Organization Basics
• Style Groups
• Quick Apply
• Managing Styles Across Documents

BONUS ONLINE CHAPTERS*
Stroke Styles

• Creating New Stroke Styles
• Saving Stroke Styles
• Modifying and Deleting Stroke Styles
• Sharing Stroke Styles
• Stroke Style Easter Eggs

Planning Projects with Styles in Mind

• Style Triage
• Creating “Undefined” Styles
• Power-apply Your Styles
• Redefine, Redefine, Redefine

* You must register your purchased copy of the book on Peachpit.com to download the bonus online chapters.

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