nested styles indesign ....

Question

What could be the reason that the styles are not working, I have text for example

Text1: afdfsgsdfsdafasdfsdafsda
Text2: fsdfsadfasdfasfsdafsdafsdafsd

Text3: fsdfsadfasdfasfsdafsdafsdafsd

And for the colons to be bold, I used nested styles, but they do not work at all I did everything according to the youtube tutorial. Someone suggest what could be the cause?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgkyEBmb7dk

rob day · Accepted Answer

look this video i did it like that https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o_11zvAkUORDJ9d9iURDoxmfVDLBMIVW/view?usp=sharing

You’ve set the entire paragraph’s Font Style to Bold

You want the Paragraph’s Font Style to be Regular, and let the nested element up to a : get the bold Character Style:

James Gifford—NitroPress · Answer

In this case, the character styule is somewhat secondary and the actual GREP string is what you need to examine.

I thought at first that a colon might need to be 'escaped' in a GREP string, but it can simply be entered for a match.

The string (.+): (or (\w+): may be more selective) should match any sentence-leading word ended with a colon, and apply the designated Character Style to those characters.

ETA: I am not an expert with GREP, so I can't define a string that will skip words followed by a colon in the text. The closest I can come to forcing it to apply only to the sentence-leading words up to the colon is ((\u\w+): ) ...

ETA2: (^(\w+): ) should apply the style only to the leading word or words in each paragraph.

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