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Using character styles

Using character styles - InDesign Tutorial

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Using character styles

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- Now that we know how to use paragraph styles, character styles will be a breeze. There's one big difference between defining a paragraph style and a character style, however. Paragraph styles always define all the character and paragraph formatting: the font, the size, the indents, everything that describes a paragraph. But character styles are different. They can be set up to define just one attribute, like just the font, or just the size, or the size and the color but nothing else. Let's see how it's done. First, let's jump to the previous spread of our Exercise File by pressing Option or Alt + Page Up. Then, let's put the text cursor inside the text over here by double-clicking on it, then I'll zoom into 200% by pressing Command or Control + 2. Of course, because we're going to be working with character styles, we'd better open the Character Styles panel, which we can find down here at the bottom of the Dock. If you don't see it there, you can always open it from the window menu.…

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