From the course: InDesign: Typography Part 2
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Efficient and consistent formatting - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Typography Part 2
Efficient and consistent formatting
- [Voiceover] Styles are a bedrock feature of InDesign. They enable better design and a more efficient workflow. The difference between using styles and not using styles is the difference between you controlling InDesign and InDesign controlling you. Styles are collections of attributes that can be applied to text with a single click or keystroke. With styles, I can transform this document in a matter of seconds. I'll begin by pressing W to show my guides and my hidden characters. Then double click with my type cursor to insert that into the text, open my Styles panel and now apply the pre-prepared paragraph styles as appropriate. Paragraph styles can incorporate both character and paragraph formats. Font, font size, alignment, paragraph spacing, everything that we have seen on the Control panel menu. Character styles can incorporate character formats only. As their names suggest, paragraph styles are applied to whole paragraphs, character styles are applied to a selected range of…
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Efficient and consistent formatting3m 35s
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Creating, applying, and editing6m 54s
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Parent and child styles6m 45s
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Nested styles and line styles8m 46s
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Sequential styles3m 22s
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Using a grep style5m 4s
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Paragraph rules and shaded paragraphs7m 39s
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