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292 Automatically format run-in headings

292 Automatically format run-in headings - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

292 Automatically format run-in headings

- [Instructor] Most headings in a text story sit on their own paragraph, like this one over here, The Early Period, that's my first level head. Now over here I've got a second level head, you could call it heading two or a B head or whatever you want, but this one is also on its own paragraph where it says Gothic Period. Now in this document I have a third level head as well, down here. You see where it says Paintings, that's what we can all a run-in head. This is different, because it runs in with the rest of the paragraph. But I still want it to look different. I want to apply a different font or size or something that will draw my eye to it and make it clear that this is a heading. Now generally, when somebody wants to apply a run-in head like this they do so manually. That is they'll double-click on this to switch to the Type tool, then they'll select the text painfully, slowly like that, and then they'll change the font, for example, I'll change this to Demi Bold Italic, and…

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