Adobe Indesign Styles CS4: How to Create Better, Faster Text and Layouts 1st Edition

I purchased this book as a companion to a more general book on Indesign CS4. If you want to learn basics about Indesign this book is not for you, but if you want to specifically learn about the power and time saving capabilities of styles then buy this book! The layout is easy to follow, the text is simple yet informative, and the examples help you see how to put what you learn into practice. I hadn't even read half of the book and I was already becoming more productive. This book isn't for everyone, but if you want to utilize some of the more powerful features of Indesign then buy it...you won't be sorry.

Words cannot express my appreciation for the level of technical detail that somehow surfaces as palatable reading. Wonderful as a reference or linear read. Even though the edition described in this book is seriously antiquated, that hardly detracts from its relevance and usability because virtually all of suggestions and processes can be reproduced in modern editions of the software.

This is now my authoritative reference for anything to do with InDesign styles. I'm always amazed at how much I don't know about this program after years of using it, and this book serves the intermediate/advanced InDesign user quite well. I hadn't even noticed grep styles in CS4 and I saved lots of work just reading the one chapter. There is additional online content too: Stroke Styles is the most thorough treatment of that subject I've found to date.The book is really a great value if you have some InDesign experience. If you're new to InDesign, you should remember to get this book after you get comfortable, but there's too much assumed knowledge for the true beginner.

As a graphic designer, I watched several podcast by the author from time to time (but i think he stopped producing them a while ago) and they have been very helpful, so i decided to buy his book. And like his podcast, he gives clear explanation and instruction that helped me in really using inDesign in the way it's designed for. But I don't think this is a book for beginners who have no idea of the program, it is more for people with graphic design training to speed up the working process when using InDesign- as the book title said- to create better, faster, text and layout.

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I'm using this with 5.5, but it's still incredibly helpful. Styles are the key to getting the most out of InDesign, and Michael Murphy tells you what you need to know to master them. He's easy to understand, and the relatively small size of the book makes it easy to navigate. This book lives on my desk, for fast reference. How did I get by without it?

This book is great for anyone needing to set up documents properly in InDesign. I purchased it to help me at work with laying out a newspaper, which requires sorting lots of information from a variety of sources, stylizing lots of text in different ways and then adapting much of that content from the publication to the web. Its a great book although a little too technical for the new user of InDesign.

WOW! If you're even a casual user of InDesign, this book will help you work smarter. It's not easy going for the novice but if you've got ongoing projects, using styles is FAR more intelligent than taking an older file and hacking it up again. The (short amount of) time spent with styles will pay big dividends and this book - visually and intellectually appealing - will convince you.

Styles is one those things you know you should learn. However you may have tried it and it wasn't as easy as your thought. I have been using styles in Indesign for a few years now and have had some successful. But there were still many areas I didn't fully understand, what is the real difference between paragraph and character styles and how should you define them?. Having read a few chapters of this book I am now enlightened. Thats how it works, ahhh!!!The best book for learning styles in Indesign, buy it now you won't regret it.