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Create a listings page

Create a listings page

From the course: Type Tips

Create a listings page

- [Instructor] In this week's Type Tips, I'm gonna show you how we can create a listings article. And this is really about how we can give structure and hierarchy to a mass of text with as few moves as possible. And really what is providing the structure and hierarchy here, as well as the red color on the item heads, is the inter-column rules and the rules above each of the listings items. So this is about how do we create inter-column rules and Paragraph Rules? My beginning text on the right hand side has Paragraph Styles applied to it. I just need to edit those Paragraph Style definitions. I'm going to pan my page over to the left so that I have room here on the right hand side to see the dialog boxes and the screen at the same time. My styles are in the start folder, and I'm going to begin by editing the head1 style. Right-click on that, choose Edit. So first of all, I'm gonna come to Basic Character Formats. And I want to differentiate the text with as few changes as possible. For…

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