But to show you style mapping, I want to show you this. A lot of my clients don't even realize that's a style drop down menu and they do everything from here, and that's okay too. This is assuming they actually use styles. This is a title, this is heading three, this is heading two. But let's say, this is typical, what they do is that the body text is normal. And your styles will still hold in InDesign, remember that.

You place it, you apply the styles in InDesign, and from then on, they can go ahead and add text and remove texts. The best thing is just to, you know, they could write the whole thing in normal. They can choose any one of these styles, but if they start doing things like adding space above or below, and different indents for different paragraphs, that just makes it a little bit more work for you in InDesign.

The best practice is to have your editors apply as little formatting as possible, only the bare minimum. The styles that it has in this drop down menu, are all HTML styles. It is not quite as specific as what we can do with WordsFlow because Google Docs is an HTML file.

It is possible to set up mapping between Google Doc styles and your InDesign layout styles.

Google doc to indesign