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To resolve paragraph style conflicts, choose one of the following from the Paragraph Style Conflicts menu. To resolve style conflicts automatically: If you chose to import the styles automatically, you can choose how style conflicts are resolved. The Microsoft Word Import Options dialog box allows you to control how styles are imported from Word files.Ĭheck Preserve Styles and Formatting from Text and Tables. This opens the Microsoft Word Import Options dialog box. When you place text from word processing programs such as Microsoft Word into InDesign, the text styles from the imported text are added to the document.Ĭhoose File > Place and navigate to find the Word file you want to import.Ĭheck Show Import Options and click Open. Use Incoming Style Definition changes the existing style to match the imported style definition.

Use the Conflict With Existing Style menu to resolve a style conflict.Īuto-Rename imports the style with a suffix to differentiate it from the existing style. Use the Check All or the Uncheck All button to quickly make choices in a long list of styles.įor all the checked styles choose one of the following from the Conflict With Existing Style menu. Uncheck the styles that you don't want to load into the document. No checkmark indicates the existing style definition should be used. Ī checkmark next to the style name indicates the incoming style definition should be used. The Load Styles dialog box allows you to choose how style conflicts should be resolved.Ĭheck the styles that you want to load into the document, and resolve the conflict. If there are conflicts, the Load Styles dialog box displays the incoming styles that have the same name as the existing styles. When this happens you need to resolve the conflict between the styles.Ĭhoose one of the Load Styles commands described above. When you load styles from one document to another, there may be times when the styles coming into the document have the same name, but different definitions. While XML is way beyond the scope of this book, the concept of tagging each type of element with its own style is a good practice to learn. With this type of structure applied to the text, I can export the text and reuse it in an XML workflow. The other reason comes from using styles as the tags that give my document structure. The first reason is that if I ever decide to change the appearance of one type of paragraph, I have that flexibility. Instead, I have a unique paragraph style for each type of element.

Some people might be tempted to define only one style and apply it to both paragraphs. For instance, I might have a paragraph that I use in these sidebars that looks identical to the paragraph I use in the regular body text. I was taught to create a unique style for each type of element in my document. Style names are case sensitive, so two styles can have the same name but different character cases. Therefore, a paragraph style name of Body Text will be added as a separate style to a document that already has a paragraph style named body text. The text styles are added to the current document. Navigate to find the document with the text styles you want to import.Ĭlick Open. Load All Styles transfers both character and paragraph styles. Load Paragraph Styles transfers the paragraph styles. Load Character Styles transfers the character styles. To transfer text styles into an InDesign document:Ĭhoose one of the following from the Paragraph Styles or Character Styles palette menu:

You can transfer or load text styles from one document into another.