Get settings from one paragraph style to one new style

[chrisp89192727]

I am fairly new to Indesign and wanted to know if there is an easy way to get paragraph style option setting in another style from already set options in one other style. when old style changes, the new should change like master-slave relationship

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Thanks for any help

[amaarora · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I guess you intend to base one style (Slave or Child) on another one (Master or  Parent). Fortunately, InDesign lets you do this.

All properties of the parent style (be it character or paragraph style) will be inherited in the child, which can also be over-riden.

All you need to do is...

1. Set up your parent style first with all the desired settings.

2. When creating your child style, in the General tab do the following...Make it based on the Parent. This will copy all the value of the settings in the Parent style to the Child style.

3. That's all basically. Whenever you change anything in the Parent style, those would be changed in Child style too. You can read more about this technique here Apply paragraph and character text styles in Adobe InDesign

Let me know if this is solved your problem

-Aman

[chrisp89192727]

Thanks for revelaing the Magic amaarora and BobLevine. This is what I wanted

[BobLevine]

Paragraph styles can be based on other styles. That should give you what you want but will require that you create them properly.

[Barb Binder]

One more note to add to the answers...

When you base an new style on an existing style, the new (child) style is linked to the parent, as described above. Changing the parent changes the style but, as you begin to customize the child style formatting, it breaks the link for those specific properties.

For example, let's say you have a Title style (Myriad Pro, 20 pt bold) and you create new style called Subtitle based on Title. It starts out as Myriad Pro, 20 pt bold, but then you reduce to size to 14 pt to indicate that it is less important, but leave Myriad Pro and bold. If you change font or style for the Title, the Subtitle will change. If you change the size, it will not, because you broke the link to that one property when you changed the size to 14 pt.