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Enhance Text Design with Nested Styles 
Creating nested styles is a great way to add unusual text effects to your document.With Adobe InDesign® CS, you can apply one character style to the beginning of a paragraph, and then determine where that character style stops and the next character style begins. By creating a paragraph style that includes these nested styles, you can quickly apply the effect to multiple paragraphs.
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Format text once and apply the same style repeatedly and with ease. Style sheets in Adobe® InDesign® CS are a shortcut to formatting text.
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InDesign Tutorial: Add Style and Save Time with Paragraph Style Sheets
Paragraph Style Sheets can be real time savers for designers especially in the creation of long or multi-page documents.
Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Design>Document Design>Style Sheets>Adobe InDesign
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Behind the Curtains: Table Styles
Table Styles are my favorite type of Style in Word. They allow you to quickly and consistently format the table itself (e.g. borders, shading, etc.), the content within the table (E.g. line spacing, font color, font size, etc.), and they can also can tell a table when to do these (e.g. shade every other row, bold text in the first column, etc.). The first two enable you to create really rich tables, and the last one (which I'll call Conditional Formatting for the rest of this post) enables you to easily work with those rich tables. Both are quite important.
Microsoft (2008). Articles>Document Design>Style Sheets>Microsoft Word
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How to Format Your Technical Documents Consistently With a Template
Consistency of a technical documentation is what creates that subliminal sense of trust and confidence in the end-users. Someone once quipped: “it ain’t technical documentation if it ain’t boring.” This of course is not true since I always found technical documents very interesting indeed. I’m the sort of geekish person who can marvel at a well-designed user’s manual for hours and appreciate its beauty and all the effort and thinking that went into its production. I imagine how happy people would be when they use that manual and solve their problems and that, believe it or not, makes me happy as well. That’s the main reason why I’m in this business.
Akinci, Ugur. Technical Communication Center (2009). Articles>Document Design>Style Sheets>Technical Writing
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How to Create a New Paragraph Style in a FrameMaker Document
Adobe FrameMaker is the information design platform of choice for most professional technical writers and technical communicators across the globe. Like all powerful software applications, FrameMaker also has a lot of features and configuration possibilities. One of those features is the ability to create new paragraph styles. Each paragraph style in FrameMaker is represented by a “Paragraph Tag.” So to create a new formatting style you actually create a “tag.” Here is how you can create a new paragraph style/tag for your FrameMaker (FM) document.
Akinci, Ugur. Technical Communication Center (2008). Articles>Document Design>Style Sheets>Adobe FrameMaker
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Automate Your Designs with Nested Styles in Adobe InDesign
We’re all used to working with style sheets (or least we should be). With each new version of InDesign, there seems to be a new way to style your content. We started with paragraph and character styles, then we got nested styles, followed by object styles, and finally table styles in InDesign CS3. As you can see, nested styles is not really new but it’s something that you should be taking advantage of, so let’s get to it.
White, Terry. Layers Magazine (2009). Design>Document Design>Style Sheets>Adobe InDesign
