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Using character styles

Using character styles - InDesign Tutorial

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Using character styles

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- [Narrator] Now that we know how to use paragraph styles, character styles will be a breeze. There's one big difference between defining a paragraph style and a character style however. Paragraph styles always define all the character and paragraph formatting, the font, the size, the indents, everything that describes a paragraph. But character styles are different. They can be set up to define just one attribute, just the font, or just the size, or just the size and the color, nothing else. Let's see how it's done. I'm going to jump up to the previous spread of this document by pressing option or alt page up. Now I'm going to double click on the text frame over here to switch the type tool, and I'll place my cursor inside this paragraph. To zoom into 200%, I'll press command or control two. Because we're going to be working with character styles, we better open the character styles' panel, which you can find over here at…

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