Adding Styles via Find/Change in InDesign

Did you know that you can add a style to an InDesign document via Find/Change?

Here’s how. Start in a document that contains the style.



Open Find/Change and specify the style in the Change Format section of the dialog box. (You also have to specify something in the Find what and/or Find Format sections.)



Switch to the document that doesn’t have the style, and run the Find/Change.



When you click either Change or Change All, the style is added to the document.




This way, you don’t have perform the extra step of creating or loading the style into the second document before running the Find/Change. InDesign assumes that if you’re asking to apply the style, you must want to add it.