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Applying formatting to a paragraph

Applying formatting to a paragraph - InDesign Tutorial

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Applying formatting to a paragraph

- [Instructor] We've already talked about formatting that you can apply to individual characters, such as kerning or underline. Now let's get into formatting that you apply to a whole paragraph. First, let's zoom in on the text on the right with cmd + spacebar or ctrl + spacebar on Windows. Now I'm going to double click inside this heading paragraph. That switches to the Type tool and places the cursor into the headline. Now you may have noticed that I'm not selecting the entire paragraph. I just have the cursor flashing in there. That's all you need when you apply paragraph formatting. Of course, that's very different than character formatting where you do need to select the characters that you want to change. Now up here at the top of the screen, you can see that the control panel is currently set to character formatting. That's that little button up here that has an A on it. So let's click on the paragraph symbol to…

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