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Create, apply, and redefine paragraph styles

Create, apply, and redefine paragraph styles - InDesign Tutorial

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Create, apply, and redefine paragraph styles

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- [Instructor] In this movie I'll show you how to create, apply, edit, and redefine paragraph styles. Let's come to the Paragraph Styles panel. And we see that at the top of the Paragraph Styles panel is a style called Basic Paragraph surrounded by square brackets. Basic Paragraph controls the appearance of text when you just draw a text frame and start typing into it. So, I'll just zoom in on that. That is what Basic Paragraph currently looks like. I can redefine this if I want by coming to Basic Paragraph, right-clicking and choosing Edit and then changing its options. I can't delete it. It's always going to be there in every document. For the most part you can just ignore Basic Paragraph. In this document, I'm going to press Command + spacebar, click and drag, come to this part of the text. I have several paragraphs that require a heading treatment or a subhead treatment. They're currently in Basic Paragraph.…

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