Adding and reusing text styles via CC Libraries

Paragraph styles and character styles can save you a lot of time when working in InDesign, and being able to reuse them across documents or share them with colleagues can be an equally big time saver. You might want to include them in a library as you create them, or maybe somebody has handed you a document with existing styles that you want to add to a CC Library, or maybe you already have some styles set up in the paragraph or character styles panels and you now want to add them to a CC Library, for example, to share with colleagues.

In this recipe, we will look at each of these scenarios, as well as how to apply paragraph and character styles from within the CC Libraries panel to items in your document, including how to copy styles from a CC Library to your paragraph or styles panels.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, simply open InDesign on your system and create a new document with 12 pages, as shown in the Creating...