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Working with Text in InDesign
In this chapter, we will look at working with text in InDesign. You will learn how to create text frames in InDesign and use the built-in placeholder text, before going on to adjust the character formatting. We will change the font face and size, alter line spacing, and apply features such as superscript and subscript, as well as apply and customize underlines and strikethroughs.
We will then go on to apply paragraph formatting options, which—as the name suggests—apply to whole paragraphs of text, including aligning text within the frame, applying space after paragraphs, using drop caps, and even applying shading and borders to individual paragraphs.
Later in the chapter, we will go into using glyphs and special ...
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