Extra Settings for Paragraph Styles

For paragraph styles, there are two additional settings that apply only to paragraph styles and not to text. They appear in the second group of settings, just below the Name setting, called Apply Styles.

The Apply Styles group has two popup menus. The first is labeled Next. This setting designates the style that will be applied after you type a return. It is particularly useful for headlines. Usually, when you type a return in a headline, you are finished with the headline and ready to type some regular text. You seldom type two headlines in row. If you have set up a headline paragraph style setting Text as its Next style, then you can choose the headline style, type the headline including a return, and continue typing using the Text style. The Next style saves you the trouble of switching back to the Text style manually.

The other popup menu is labeled Char. This setting associates a character style with the paragraph style, so whenever you apply the paragraph style you apply the character style, too.

Styles Editor

To designate the paragraph style that will be applied after you type a return:

To associate a character style with a paragraph style: