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Use conditional text to make teacher and student versions

Use conditional text to make teacher and student versions

From the course: Type Tips

Use conditional text to make teacher and student versions

- [Instructor] Welcome to Type Tips. My name is Nigel French. In this episode, I'm going to give you an example of something that we can do with conditional text and that is to make a teacher and student version of the same document. Rather than having to manage two documents simultaneously, we can do this all in a single document. First of all, I'm going to come to the window menu, type and tables, and open the conditional text panel. I already have a condition made. I've called it notes. When I turn that on and just before I turn it on, I'm going to open my pages panel because I want you to see how the number of pages will expand and contract according to which conditions are visible. So I'll turn on notes. We see a third level of head now become visible and we see that we are now running to four pages as opposed to three pages. Let's say that I want to create a new condition and apply this to my second level of head. I'll call this head two, and now I can select my text and I can…

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