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Oct 24, 2025 9:27 AM UTC
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Story Style

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
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Oct 24, 2025 9:57 AM UTC

What you're after is conditional styling. See

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

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Willi Adelberger
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Community Expert
Oct 24, 2025 9:41 AM UTC

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

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