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Create, apply, and redefine character styles

Create, apply, and redefine character styles - InDesign Tutorial

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Create, apply, and redefine character styles

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show how to create, apply, and modify character styles. I'm going to zoom in on the text, Cmd + Ctrl + spacebar, click and drag. Once you've applied paragraph styles which format that whole paragraph, you can then apply character styles to any exceptions within the paragraph. So for example, I would like to call out this text. I'm using character styles to give emphasis to the botanical names. First of all I just want to make a point that character styles are not cumulative. So if I come to my character styles here and let's say that I create one, which I call Ital and then to my basic character formats and I choose Italic as the font style, and then I decide that I would like it to actually be Bold Italic. When I apply a bold character style which I already have created to that text, it overrides the italic. So if you really want your character style to be both bold and italic, then you would make a whole new character style but use the font style…

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