Smart Styles for InD CS/CS2/CS3

Every two weeks Quark VS InDesign​.com and XChange International gives away 2 great prizes–an extra­or­di­nary xten­sion for QuarkXPress and an incred­i­ble InDesign plug-in. All you have to do to win is…

• Become a Quark VS InDesign​.com mem­ber (free), and;
• Throw your name into the give­away hat at the bot­tom of this page.

That’s all. No pur­chase or song and dance nec­es­sary. A win­ner will be cho­sen at ran­dom from those who enter on this page.

This con­test has end­ed. On 2008-08-10 we gave
Smart Styles from Woodwing
To Ric R. of Milwaukee, WI USA

Congratulations, Ric! Get some prizes for your­self on our Contests & Giveaways page.

The InDesign Plug-In We Gave Away This Time

Smart Styles
InDesign Plug-In from Woodwing

WoodWing¹s award-winning Smart Styles plug-in for Adobe InDesign puts pow­er­ful auto­mat­ic for­mat­ting capa­bil­i­ties at your fingertips.

Define or apply: drag-and-drop
Interested in sav­ing time on mind-numbing tasks like com­plex for­mat­ting of lay­out ele­ments? Smart Styles is going to help you a lot. Read on, just to see how sim­ple it is.

First, define your Smart Style. This is just as sim­ple as drag­ging a for­mat­ted page item into the Smart Styles library. Once defined, all that is need­ed to repeat the com­plex for­mat­ting task is anoth­er drag-and-drop action, from the library onto the object(s) that need formatting!
Share, update and reuse

Smart Styles¹ intel­li­gence rec­og­nizes com­plex struc­tures with­in tables, texts and oth­er objects and does all the hard work for you in no time. And, if you decide to mod­i­fy a Smart Style, the entire doc­u­ment can be updat­ed with just a sim­ple action.

Smart Styles are stored in one or more InDesign libraries which can be shared eas­i­ly with oth­er users. Text styles and swatch­es used by Smart Styles are auto­mat­i­cal­ly cre­at­ed when they are not avail­able in the doc­u­ment. So, shar­ing and reusing styles has nev­er been easier.

Awesome sort­ing and calculating
But Smart Styles doesn¹t stop there. It can also help you sort tables direct­ly inside InDesign. You can use up to three sort cri­te­ria, and adjust the sort order accord­ing to your spe­cif­ic lan­guage require­ments. Another pow­er­ful fea­ture is the abil­i­ty to per­form spreadsheet-like cal­cu­la­tions inside InDesign tables.

Benefits:
– Complex for­mat­ting made easy
– Tables made easy with sort­ing and cal­cu­la­tions inside a table
– No more bor­ing, repet­i­tive tasks
– Save time while cre­at­ing your own library
– Create con­sis­ten­cy through­out your documents
– Can be used with Smart Layout for even more efficiency

Once you get start­ed, you will soon under­stand why Smart Styles received the pres­ti­gious Creative Mac award, and MacAddict rat­ed Smart Styles ³Awesome² and ³Editor¹s Choice.²