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1. Re: Importing Styles
Scott Falkner Aug 29, 2010 7:25 AM (in response to peterpica)Select Load Styles from the flyout menu in the appropriate panel.
You are probably losing some formatting because you have based styles in one of both files on Basic Paragraph Style and redefined Basic Paragraph Style. Say there’s a style called Body copy in file 1 that uses Helvetica and a style with the same name in file 2 that uses Times. If you copy text from file 1 to file 2 that uses Body Copy InDesign will honour the differences in the style definitions. Helvetica in file 1 will become Times when copied to file 2 (so long as the text uses those styles).
Basic Paragraph Style (BPS) is one of those big ugly mistakes Adobe made in an earlier version that they should probably jus get rid of. If you base your style definitions on BPS, then any differences in the definition of BPS between two files will end up casing confusion when copying from one file to the other. I honestly have no idea why Adobe included such a feature and continues to keep it in the program. All it is to me is a trap for new or uninformed users. It is, at best, an inconvenience (Jus one extra line you don’t need in the Paragraph Styles panel) and at worst… well you found out.
The two things to avoid are basing any text style on Basic Paragraph Style and editing Basic Paragraph Style. You can correct the first one in your files by editing the Paragraph Styles so that none of them in either file is based on BPS.
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