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Alignment, indents, and below spacing

Alignment, indents, and below spacing - InDesign Tutorial

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Alignment, indents, and below spacing

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- In this movie, I'll show you how to adjust alignment, indent and before spacing of entire paragraphs at a time. When styling text in InDesign, you want to keep in mind that there are two categories of formatting attributes. We have the character level formatting attributes, which affect selected characters of type, so in other words, if one word in a paragraph is selected, you're going to style that one word, that single word, independently of the deselected words in the paragraph. Examples of character-level formatting attributes include font, type style, type size and leading. In other words, everything we've seen so far. Now we're going to take a look at paragraph-level formatting attributes, which affect entire paragraphs at a time, even if those paragraphs are just partially selected. Examples of these include alignment, indent and before spacing, all of which we'll see in this movie. I'll go ahead and switch over to this document here. Currently we're only seeing the visible…

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