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Using nested styles

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Using nested styles

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- [Instructor] Nested styles are an option that you can build into paragraph styles. To use them, you tell InDesign which character style to apply and which characters mark the end of where you want the style applied. They are perfect for things like running heads, where you want the first few words at the start of the paragraph to be formatted differently from the rest. And that can save you a lot of work in long documents. So let's see how they work. Here at the top of my document page, I have an example that's a perfect case for nested style. It's a paragraph with a running heading, which is always followed by an end space right here. So I have a predictable location and pattern to base the nested style on. And it will save me a ton of time over the long run by not having to manually apply this character style, which I can see is called run in blue. So I'll start by removing the character style, changing it to none. And…

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