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October 24, 2025
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Story Style

  • October 24, 2025
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I often edit books with variable formatting in InDesign, and I'm missing one feature that would be very useful: Story Style. Publishers typically want paragraph first lines indented by a variable amount, but they ask me not to indent the first paragraph of each section. Currently, I have to do this manually.
Are the developers considering this feature for future updates?

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Peter Kahrel
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 24, 2025

What you're after is conditional styling. See

https://creativepro.com/conditional-styling-rules-for-indesign/

Willi Adelberger
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 24, 2025

Can you describe what you mean? What is Story Style?