Apr. 1, 2009
Using Paragraph Styles in InDesign can make formatting text easy!
If you’re using InDesign and not using styles, you’re living in the stone age… Let me show you how to save all the formatting attributes applied to a paragraph for later use, and then apply them to similar text in a one click action.
Before we get into that let me list the different types of formatting captured in a paragraph style. We can capture the following: Basic Character Formats, Advanced Character Formats, Indents and Spacing, Tabs, Paragraph Rules, Keep Options, Hyphenation, Justification, Drop Caps and Nested Styles, Grep Style, Bullets and Numbering, Character Colour, Open Type Features, Underline Options and Strikethrough Options.
Once you have formatted any text in a document, like a header, you don’t really want to do all the same formatting steps over again on every other header within your document. If you had a document with 20 more headers, chances are you’d be changing all sorts of formatting options for the next 10 minutes. However, if you create a paragraph style of the header text first you can go through your document, insert your type cursor within the header paragraphs, then click on the paragraph style you created and you’ll be done within a minute.
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Posted by Neil Oliver in Styles | 1 Comment
Apr. 1, 2009
Its time to save you loads of time with Styles inside InDesign. Are you ready?
For the next month I’m going to post loads of articles about Paragraph, Character and Object Styles in InDesign CS4. By the end of the month my aim is that you will have a complete understanding of Paragraph, Character and Object Styles. Are you ready for it… The clock starts tomorrrow, check back then for my first post on the basics of paragraph styles.
