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Create and modify paragraph and character styles

Create and modify paragraph and character styles

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Create and modify paragraph and character styles

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- [Instructor] Sometimes the built-in styles don't quite do it for us. Luckily, we have additional styles we can work with and, of course, we can modify current styles, create our own character style, create a paragraph style, and create our own font sets. Let's go ahead and take a look at our document. This is the 03_05 Modify_Styles document. Now looking at this document, I see that a heading one style has been applied. If I click on About Us and look at my Styles Gallery, heading one is highlighted. It's pretty bland. I want to go ahead and update this to add a little bit of color to it, maybe increase the size and even underline it. So, I'm going to modify this style. I'll right-click on the heading one style, go to Modify, and let me move this over here, so you can see it. We see the Name of the style. It's a Linked style, so it can be either applied to a paragraph, or just to a character in a paragraph. That all depends on what type of selection you make in the paragraph. If you…

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