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- [Instructor] Let's say that we are just beginning our EPUB project and we've been given a Word document that is one of the chapters of our "History of Italy" book. So, I've placed it into InDesign and applied the basic style, which in this case, is body copy to essentially everything in this chapter. But before I go any further in figuring out the styles and fine-tuning the styles, look at all this junk that's in this file. You know, Word users do this all the time. They use multiple returns, they use two bases after periods, they indent paragraphs with a tab. So you know, the indented paragraph worked fine with the tab in Word, but here, after I've applied the body style, it already has its own first line indent amount right up here, so, we get a double hit. Instead of deleting all this extra junk by hand or using multiple find changes over and over again to find for two tabs in a row, replace with one, why not…

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