Adobe Indesign CS4

Adobe Indesign CS4 – Working with styles

Now you’ll try out styles to see how using them lets you quickly and consistently format text and objects and—more importantly—easily make global changes by simply editing the style. InDesign CS4 contains a variety of styles: paragraph, character, object, table, and cell styles.

• A paragraph style includes formatting attributes that apply to all text in a paragraph. You do not need to select text to apply a paragraph style, because it applies to all text in the paragraph where the pointer is located.
• A character style includes only character attributes, making it useful for formatting selected words and phrases in a paragraph.
• An object style lets you create and apply formatting to selected objects. Using an object style, you can set fill and stroke color, stroke and corner effects, transparency, drop shadows, feathering, text frame options, and even text wrap on a selected object.
• Table and cell styles let you control table and cell formatting.

Applying paragraph styles

You’ll start by applying styles to the magazine article’s text, and then move on to using object styles. To save time, the paragraph styles that you’ll apply to the text have already been created. These styles will help you quickly format the body text in the article.

1. Select the Type tool (), and then click anywhere in the columns of text that you previously placed on this page.
2. Choose Edit > Select All to select the text in all the threaded frames containing the story.
3. Choose Type > Paragraph Styles to display the Paragraph Styles panel.
4. In the Paragraph Styles panel, click Body Text to format the entire story with the Body Text style.

   TIP: You can also apply styles in the Control panel, using either the Character Formatting or the Paragraph Formatting controls.

5. Choose Edit > Deselect All to deselect the text.

Now you’ll apply a different paragraph style to the first paragraph of the story.

6. Using the Type tool, click anywhere in the first paragraph on page 3.
7. In the Paragraph Styles panel, select Body Text / Drop Cap. Paragraph styles can include a variety of text formatting options, including drop caps.
8. Choose File > Save.

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Adobe Indesign CS4

• Adobe InDesign CS4 – Converting Flexible Object Styles
• Adobe Indesign CS4 – Combining Paragraph Styles and Object Styles
• Adobe InDesign CS4 – Override Removal
• Adobe Indesign CS4 – Differences Between Object Styles and Text Styles
• Adobe Indesign CS4 – Targeting layers when placing objects
• Adobe Indesign CS4 – Positioning graphics within a frame
• Adobe Indesign CS4 – Working with graphics
• Adobe Indesign CS4 – Creating and applying a character style
• Adobe Indesign CS4 – Working with styles
• Adobe Indesign CS4 – Wrapping text around an object
• Adobe Indesign CS4 – Adding a stroke to the frame
• Adobe Indesign CS4 – Threading text in frames
• Adobe Indesign CS4 – Adding text
• Adobe Indesign CS4 – Preflighting as you work
• Getting Started with Adobe InDesign CS4

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