From the course: Designing a Brochure
Join today to access over 22,700 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.
Applying the basic text formats - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Designing a Brochure
Applying the basic text formats
- [Instructor] Having selected and synced our typefaces, Tisa and Tisa Sans, we're now ready to start formatting the text. And in this movie, I just want to get some basic formats in place. When we imported or placed this document from Microsoft Word, we inherited this paragraph style, normal. So what I'm going to do is edit this style. I'll change its name but most importantly, I'm going to change its formats. So this is going to be Tisa Pro. Now the size that I want to use for my body type is nine, and the leading value, the space between the lines, 11 points. Next I'm going to come to my indents and spacing because I would like some space between each of these paragraphs. I would like a half line of space, which is 5.5 points. Currently, my unit of measurement is inches but I can still type in 5.5 PT and then press the tab key. Next, I'm going to come to hyphenation and turn it off. That's about all the formats…
Practice while you learn with exercise files
Download the files the instructor uses to teach the course. Follow along and learn by watching, listening and practicing.
Download courses and learn on the go
Watch courses on your mobile device without an internet connection. Download courses using your iOS or Android LinkedIn Learning app.