From the course: Cert Prep: Adobe Certified Associate - InDesign
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Format type - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Cert Prep: Adobe Certified Associate - InDesign
Format type
- [Instructor] It's no exaggeration to say that every professional-quality publication made with InDesign should use paragraph and character styles for text formatting. That's how important styles are for efficiency and consistency. So naturally for the ACA exam, you need to know how to create, edit, and apply styles to format type. I'll start by making sure that I'm using the Typography workspace. That way I have access to my Paragraph and Character Styles panels. And here in our exercise file, we have a text brand containing a recipe. Notice all the different kinds of formatting we have here in just a few paragraphs. The title is in yellow, all caps with a green bold drop cap. The ingredients are in green in two columns, even though this is a single column text frame, the two column look is achieved with a span and split feature, which can be used in a paragraph style. And the steps are in black in a numbered list format. And all this formatting has been applied manually. If I…
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Create frames6m 25s
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Place images7m 17s
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Add type to a design5m 10s
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Format type6m 47s
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Convert type to outlines2m 44s
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Manage text flow4m 20s
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Add special characters2m 58s
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Make selections5m 39s
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Modify frames3m 56s
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Use the Story Editor4m 33s
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Use effects5m 1s
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Use object styles3m 5s
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Add interactive elements5m 4s
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Add media2m 17s
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Work with buttons2m 25s
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Create tables5m 9s
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Format tables and cells7m 4s
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