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Highlighting paragraphs with boxes

Highlighting paragraphs with boxes - InDesign Tutorial

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Highlighting paragraphs with boxes

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- [Instructor] You can see these shaded areas that call out these paragraphs around the page. How do we create that kind of paragraph border or shading effect? Well, let's start by using the Type Tool to select a couple of these paragraphs over here on the right hand page. Remember, you don't have to select the whole paragraph to tell InDesign what you want to change. Let's go ahead and zoom in to 200% by pressing command or control 2. To apply paragraph shading just click on the Shading check box up here in the control panel. Of course that only shows up when the control panel is in paragraph formatting mode. We can also choose a color from the menu to the right, but this doesn't give you any real control over the size or tint of the shading. To actually get the control you need hold down the option or alt key and click on the little icon to the left of the menu. When you do that, up comes this big dialog box. Now…

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