Adobe InDesign, 2nd Edition

Paragraph Styles Intro

Let’s have a look at page 8 of your course file 02 Text Frames and Type Styles.indd. The bulk of the text on pages 8 and 9 is gray and formatted generically. The first four paragraphs, however, are formatted in a way we are going to capture as styles. This will allow us to apply that formatting to any other paragraph with a single click. I consider paragraph styles the single most important feature in InDesign because they allow us to be perfectly consistent so easily.

Creating Styles from Examples

The scenario on page 8 is a common one. We need to capture formatting that is standard for our company or organization so it can be replicated elsewhere in compliance with style guidelines, perhaps. So we format several (or ...