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Using character styles

Using character styles - InDesign Tutorial

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Using character styles

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- [Instructor] 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 in 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, like just the font or just the size, or the size and the color, but nothing else. Let's see how it's done. First, let's jump up to the previous spread of this document by pressing Option or Alt + Page Up. Then, I'm going to double click in this story over here on the left, place my cursor in this paragraph and zoom in with a Command or Control +, I'll press it a few times. Because we're going to be working with character styles, we need to open the Character Styles panel, which you can find over here…

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