Add text to your InDesign file. It needs to contain at least 1000 characters.
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Learn how to apply, edit, and create Style Packs to style your InDesign documents.
Introducing Auto Style (Technology Preview)
Powered by Adobe Sensei, Auto Style simplifies text formatting for you. Working on a large document? Select one of the Style Packs to format your text automatically.

Whether you're new to InDesign or an expert, text styling can require lots of time and effort to get right. With Auto Style, you can apply, edit, and create Style Packs to streamline this process.
What is a Style Pack?
A Style Pack is a group of Paragraph Styles. Auto Style reads your text and applies different styles to different sections based on your Style Pack selection.
Work with Style Packs in four easy steps
This feature is only available for InDesign installed in English (International) and English (North America) locales.
The Auto Style feature reads your text, recognizes the different sections, and applies our built-in Style Packs accordingly.
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Apply the Style Pack you would like to see by selecting one of the following:
- Style Pack Added icon: The Style Pack is installed and applied upon selection.
- Download Style Pack icon: The Style Pack isn't installed and will be downloaded and installed upon selection.

Once you've tried a few Style Packs, you might want to adjust the treatment of certain elements, like Subheads or Ordered lists.
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Select the Paragraph Style you want to edit within your Style Pack folder.
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Select the menu Style Options.
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Edit the style using the Paragraph Style Options.
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Select the Apply Style Pack icon next to the edited Style Pack in the Paragraph Styles panel.

If you can't find what you're looking for, you can create your own Style Pack with existing or new Paragraph Styles.
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Create styles, load styles from another InDesign file, or convert Microsoft Word styles to InDesign styles.
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Select the menu New Style Pack.
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Select an InDesign Style (any existing Paragraph Style) for each default Style Name.

Do you like writing in Microsoft Word or another text editor? Or maybe you want to work with text from a web page? You can copy and paste text from other surfaces and Auto Style it with the Style Packs.
Select the Paste text only icon and then select Auto Style text icon.
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Copy and paste text from any other surface into your InDesign file. It needs to contain at least 1000 characters.
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Select the Paste text only icon to see all the paste options:
Paste text only : Pastes text without any formatting
Paste with formatting : Pastes text with the source formatting intact
Auto Style text : Auto styles your text as per the selected Style Pack
If you copy text into an existing text frame, the Paste text only icon appears at the last line of the existing text.
Clipboard Handling
If you don't see the Auto Style text icon, adjust your Clipboard Handling options.
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Copy and paste text from any other surface into your InDesign file. It needs to contain at least 1000 characters to use the Auto Style feature.
You can also use the Place option to import a text (.txt) file or a word document (.docx) into your InDesign file. The imported file needs to contain at least 1000 characters to use the Auto Style feature.


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Now that you know how to Auto Style your text with Style Packs, learn more about Paragraph and character styles and how to copy text from Illustrator to InDesign without losing fidelity.
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