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062 Adjusting leading inside a paragraph

062 Adjusting leading inside a paragraph - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

062 Adjusting leading inside a paragraph

Everybody knows that in InDesign, leading is character formatting, not paragraph formatting. That is, you can apply leading to a single character and whatever character has the biggest leading on a line of text, wins. That's why if I double-click on this text and change its leading, nothing happens. You need to select some text first. So I'll double-click on that word and it selects the word and I'll change that, and it changes the leading, but only for that one line. Not the whole paragraph. Again, whatever has the biggest leading, wins; the whole line gets that leading. It's kind of obnoxious because it means you have to select the entire paragraph to change its leading. You could quadruple-click on it if you're that coordinated, four-clicks and then change the leading, let's say to 20 points here, and it affects the entire paragraph. That's a little bit too big. So let's change this down to let's say 17 points. All right, now what about this paragraph down here? You'll often see…

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