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Applying formatting to a paragraph

Applying formatting to a paragraph - InDesign Tutorial

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Applying formatting to a paragraph

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- [Instructor] We've already talked about formatting that you can apply to individual characters, such as kerning or underline. Now let's get into formatting that you apply to a whole paragraph. First, let's go ahead and zoom in on this text frame by selecting it and then pressing Command or Control + couple times. Now, I'll double click on this headline to place my cursor into it. Now, you may notice that I did not select the entire paragraph. I just have the cursor flashing in there. That's all you need when you apply paragraph formatting. Of course, that's very different than character formatting, where you do need to select the characters that you want to change. Now, up here at the top of the screen in the control panel, you can see that we're currently in character formatting mode. That's that little A icon, so let's click on the paragraph symbol here to switch the mode. Technically, when you switch from one mode to the other, you're really just switching which features are on…

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