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DarrenFMc7241336
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May 28, 2019
Question

Place 3 paragraph styles side by side

  • May 28, 2019
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Hi,

I have imported a lot of text using the XML import and it came in fine.

Each of the Child Nodes contains 10 text items. Each of the text items has been assigned a Paragraph Style.

I created a Paragraph Style for each of the elements and then assigned a Tag to the Paragraph Styles to format each of the leements in each XML child node.

At the moment they are all aligned under each other.

I would like 3 of the Paragraph style element to be side by side:

Example at the moment they show on the page as:

Paragraph Style 1

Paragraph Style 2

Paragraph Style 3

I would them to show as:

Paragraph Style 1 - Paragraph Style 2 - Paragraph Style 3

With 3000 Child Nodes I would like to be able to set the formatting using Paragraph styles if possible so that the changes will cascade through the document.

Is this possible?

Cheers

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    Barb Binder
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    Barb BinderCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 28, 2019

    Hi Darren:

    Can we assume that paragraphs 1–3 are multi-line paragraphs? In that case you'd need to use tables or threaded frames with column breaks to get the paragraphs to sit side-by-side. InDesign doesn't have an easy way to set one multi-line paragraph next to another paragraph multi-line paragraph. If they are single-line, you can use tabs to space them across the page.

    The good news is that you can use Next Paragraph to assign the cascading styles (paras 1, 2, and 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3) with a right-click in the Style panel.

    ~Barb

    ~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
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    DarrenFMc7241336Author
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    May 28, 2019

    Hi

    thanks for the quick response.

    The 3 paragraph Style Elements are actually only 1-3 words in length

    Barb Binder
    Community Expert
    Barb BinderCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 28, 2019

    Hi Darren:

    In that case, you can use tabs to sit them side by side fairly easily, but they will all use the same paragraph style. Do they need 3 paragraph styles? Sharing what you have now and your intended layout would be helpful here.

    ~Barb

    ~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
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