Working with styles

Before you fix the layout on page 3, you'll first work with the paragraph styles.

As you learned in Lesson 3, a style is a set of formatting attributes that you can name and apply to paragraphs. Even in this guidebook, which does not have a rigidly consistent style, styles make formatting the text much easier. Styles are especially useful when you repeat formatting characteristics in several places or are still experimenting with the layout of a publication.

You'll change several styles in this guidebook.

Editing the Body Text style

The first style change you'll make is to the Body Text style. You'll change its alignment and dictionary settings.

Body text is the style applied to the body of the story La victoire en équipe. ...

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