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Section paragraph styles

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Section paragraph styles

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- [Instructor] In this step, I want to add some structure to the document. The book is made up of six parts. Each part begins on a new right-hand page and has different formats. I'm looking here at the finished version, the first page of the text itself and when I zoom in, we see that the part number is in small caps and the part title is in italic and this is all actually one paragraph, so we'll be using a nested style to automate the formatting of this but before we get to that, we're going to be using find change to apply the formats to all six parts. Here I am in the work in progress and here is the first instance of the parts. I'll select this text, I'm going actually going to make it look the way I want the titles to look which is in the larger italic. So, I'm going to increase the type size to 18 point and the leading value to 30 and the type style to italic. I'll come to my Paragraph Formats and remove the first line indent and center the type. Now I need to add in the page…

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