When formatting your style sheets, for instance, you just have to keep clicking on the field next to go onto the next format you want to style. Later, you can apply these styles on text as you would in Quark. As you make changes in type formats, you can see the changes take place as you set the formats up. Instead of linking text boxes, Adobe refers to it as threading text and it seems that here too, moving pages around and changing the design of your document is more flexible than it is in Quark. The eyedropper tool is really unique in that it works on both type and color.
Users can point to an area of type and get readings on the attributes of the formatting.
Then in the dialog box they can apply the attributes they choose on other areas of type. The same is true about color and it even works with imported images where the user can apply the CMYK values of color and match it in InDesign. Speaking of color you are used to in Illustrator, you will have no trouble creating colors and gradients and applying them. Colors in 1.5 can be displayed as large or small swatches and there is support for drag and drop color. Fonts are now easier to handle in 1.5.