: Should I split different paragraph styles in different Text boxes? - InDesign When I'm creating a document, I always split each section and each paragraph style in an individual text box. Mainly

@Tiffany317

Using and adjusting paragraph styles is your time saver.

Being able to adjust a style is much more efficient than manually adjusting many boxes across your document. You will probably have to use individual boxes in places were you have a specific layout need, but your overall goal should be to get comfortable with using styles as much as you can, especially with any long document.

Get comfortable with adjusting the style settings to get the spacing you like, then set the styles with keyboard shortcuts. When you get it set-up well, you can churn right through a document applying styles with your shortcuts, or even better, map the styles when you import your text documents or mail merge file.

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@Speyer780

This varies enormously depending on the document and the workflow.


Brochure, where each page is a thought independent of the next page:
break up each headline and text box so they aren't linked to
anything else.
Brochure, where each spread is a thought: headline gets a box, all
the text boxes on that spread are linked, but don't link it to the
next spread.
Annual report: I'd make headlines independent and all the text boxes
in each section linked (but not link sections to each other).
Flyer or fact sheet, one or two sides: every text box is independent.
Advertisement: every text box is independent.
Book: everything but the chapter heads and header/footer is linked. Maybe even the chapter heads are linked if you set up the styles right.
Business cards, one-shot: every text box is independent.
BUT Business cards, repeat job: you might want to link all the boxes so you
can import copy from a pre-styled text source so the styles apply
automatically, and populate all the cards in one go.


There's no single best practice because there are too many design setups and too many reasons to import and style text.

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