InDesign Question-Book and Paragraph Style Names

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October 26, 2022
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I've got a Catalog (InDesign Book) that is broken down into the different "chapters/sections"...I want to name certain things in Paragraph Styles for each of the chapters but don't want the the paragraph styles to change from chapter to chapter.

If I name something in one chapter/section and then name something else the same thing in another chapter/section...will it affect the Paragraph Styles look in each?

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Eugene Tyson

Community Expert

Only if you synchronise your styles across the book file.

https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/indesign/using/creating-book-files.html#:~:text=the%20selected%20file.-,Synchronize%20book%20documents,-When%20you%20synchronize

Susan Culligan

Inspiring

I hope I understand your question correctly! If you mean keeping the Paragraph Style names the same from chapter to chapter and giving them different attributes (font, size, etc.) in separate chapters, the changes will only affect that chapter; it won't change the attributes in the other chapters.

However, if you change the style from section to section in the same document, then the style will change in that entire document.

I work with book files (individual documents gathered into an InDesign Book) all the time. I don't synchronize them before sending to the publisher, as Willi mentions, so I'm not familiar with that. For a thorough discussion on synchronization, see David Blatner's article https://creativepro.com/synchronize-multiple-indesign-documents/

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Shantelle5CC9Author

Participant

Do you know if you can use the Paragraph Style Sheet to create the Index? If I were to label all items (throughout the whole book/catalog) with the same name in the Paragraph Style Sheet...would the Index be able to grab all of the same-named items and list the pages throughout the whole book?

Thank you for your help.

Susan Culligan

Inspiring

In this case I think you'd have to use Character Styles so it wouldn't pick out the whole paragraph, but I've never used the InDesign index feature.

I use an inexpensive indexing app called IndexMaticPro. You just make up a list of keywords, then code the list according to their excellent manual, and it creates the index for you. It's pretty easy to learn, although you may have to run it a couple of times to get it right, but it saves searching through the entire book marking every word.

Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

I think you bundle the book: several indd in one indb
You can synchronize all style in the book accross the document.
To make it easy I reccommend to make style names short and simple, like p, h1, etc.
If I have to make changes, I do not make changes in the original paragraph styles like p. I create a new style based on that name like p.class. These styles will inherit all properties from p if it changed, if this property is not changed and by that name I see how the dependence is.
Changes in one chapter have no influence to other chapters until synchronization.

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