Adobe Indesign CS4 – Creating and applying a character style
Now that you have formatted the text, you are ready to create a character style.
- Make sure that the text you formatted is still selected, and choose Type > Character Styles to display the Character Styles panel.
- Hold down the Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) key and click the Create New Style button at the bottom of the Character Styles panel.
- In the Style Name box, type Italic and click OK.
- Using the Type tool, select the reference and click Italic in the Character Styles panel to apply the style.
- Apply the character style Italic to the reference in the same column, and to the reference in the other column.
A new character style named Character Style 1 is created, as shown in the New Character Style dialog box. This new style includes the characteristics of the selected text, as indicated in the Style Settings area of the dialog box.
Even though you established the style using this text, you still need to apply the style. Applying a style tags the text so that it updates automatically when the character style attributes are changed.
Because you applied a character style instead of a paragraph style, the formatting affected only the selected text, not the entire paragraph.
- Choose View > Fit Page in Window, and then close the Character Styles panel.
- Choose File > Save.