Chapter 23. Paragraph Formatting

As you work with text, you organize characters into words and words into paragraphs. When you work on a paragraph level, you shape the way text looks by defining its horizontal alignment, spacing, indents and tabs, baseline grid, text composition, hyphenation and justification, and you create attributes like drop caps and rules.

Selecting Paragraphs

InDesign provides several ways to select text when you’re using paragraph formatting:

  • As in XPress and PageMaker, you can place the text insertion point anywhere in the paragraph; you don’t have to select the whole paragraph. Similarly, you can select a range of text in a text frame with the Type tool. Formatting applies to paragraphs included in the range, even if you ...

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