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Creating and applying paragraph styles - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2020 Essential Training
Creating and applying paragraph styles
- [Instructor] Styles are a way to take a whole bunch of formatting and give it a name. InDesign lets you create styles for character formatting, paragraph formatting, object formatting, even table formatting. And styles are important because they let you apply or change a whole lot of formatting with a single click, so they really boost productivity. For example, here in this book, you can see that a bunch of text over here needs to be formatted. And to do that, we should open our paragraph styles panel over here in the dock. Now over here on the left hand page, I'm going to double click on the text to switch to the type tool. When I click in the text on the left, I can see in the paragraph styles that this has the basic paragraph style applied to it. Now we want to avoid basic paragraph as much as we can. It's much better to apply our own paragraph styles. And in this case, we have one. Let's go ahead and make the…
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