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Creating and applying the body style - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Designing a Book
Creating and applying the body style
- [Instructor] In the previous movie, I chose my body text typeface. In this movie, I'm going to create a paragraph style for my body text. Double click to insert my type cursor. Command or Control + 2, to zoom into 200 percent view. Select a paragraph, by clicking in it four times. On my character formatting controls, I'll change the typeface to Tribute Roman. I'm going to leave the size at 12 points. Change the leading, or line spacing, to 15. And, to save time, I'm just going to talk about those things that I'm changing from the default settings that I'm starting with. I'll come now to my alignment options. I want my text to be justified. Justified with last line aligned left. To differentiate one paragraph from the next, I need a first line indent. The size of that will be the size of my type. Also expressed as one em space. Now, because I have a first line indent, I do not need any space before or any space after. My text is going to hyphenate. Hyphenation being a necessary…
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Creating and applying the body style6m 12s
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Section paragraph styles4m 51s
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Section paragraph styles: Using a nested style3m 50s
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Creating and applying chapter number styles5m 37s
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Automating chapter title formatting5m 56s
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Align text to a baseline grid1m 57s
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Additional formatting4m 28s
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Adding and formatting a footnote3m
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Automating character styles7m 16s
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Adding the running header6m 6s
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Removing unwanted headers5m 9s
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