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Creating and applying chapter number styles

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Creating and applying chapter number styles

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- [Instructor] In this step, we'll be creating and applying the Chapter Number paragraph style. And this is really going to enhance the structure of the book because each of these begins on a new page. And the chapter number actually starts several lines down on that new page, except where they follow the Part paragraph style, in which case they just run on from that text. So we need two variants of this style. If we come to our work in progress, we see that we just have a numeral. The word Chapter is missing, so in addition, we're going to add the word Chapter to all of these. There's 34 of them, and we have more than 200 pages, so we want to automate this as much as possible. To begin with, coming to my character formats, I'll change the text to italic. Now on my paragraph formats, I'll make it Centered, and I will remove the first line indent. I'll now come to my Keep Options from the Control Panel menu and say Start Paragraph On Next Page. Let's now move to that next page and zoom…

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