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Formatting dedications

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Formatting dedications

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- [Instructor] Continuing with the formatting of the front matter, the next thing that we need to do is sort out the dedications, and there are two of them. Let's just take a look at the finished version. Here is the first of them and here is the second. And on the second, you can see that every other line is indented. So starting out with the first, both are currently based upon the body text. I'm going to select that. And because they're based on the body text, they have that first line indent, which I'll remove. I'll change the alignment to center. And in the case of this one, I am going to break the link to the style. And now I just want to add in some line breaks to shape the text. Insert my cursor before the point where I want to break the line and press Shift+Return. So we now have this interesting chandelier shape for our dedication. I would like the text to start further down on the page. And as my reference, I'm just going to page forward to the start of the book and draw…

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