

In the next exercise, you will update an existing style, and then apply the Drop Cap style. Drop Cap is now added to the styles in the Paragraph Styles panel in your document. Select the Drop Cap check box to select only this one style.Ĥ Click OK. The Load Styles dialog box appears.ģ In the Load Styles dialog box, click the Uncheck All button to deselect all the styles, because you will only import one specific style. You will locate a file from which to import a style.Ģ In the Open a File dialog box, navigate to the id03lessons folder and select the id0301_done.indd file. In this exercise, you will import a Drop Cap style from another document and use the style in this document.ġ In the Paragraph Styles panel, click the panel menu button ( ) and choose Load Paragraph Styles. You can import styles from one InDesign document to another, making it possible to share formatting across various documents.

The headline is formatted with the paragraph style you created. In the General section of the New Paragraph Style dialog box, select the Apply Style to Selection check box.ħ On page 3, click to place the cursor in the headline When is the best time to update equipment? In the Paragraph Styles panel, select the Headline style to apply it. When you create a new style, you can also have InDesign apply it to the current selection. If the style is updated, the appearance of this headline will also update. The appearance of the text does not change, but the text is now attached to the style. The new style contains the text attributes from where the cursor was located when you created the new style, including font, style, color, and spacing.Ħ Select the Headline style in the Paragraph Styles panel to apply the style to the text. In the Style Name text field, type Headline, and then click OK. The Paragraph Styles panel opens.ĥ Click the panel menu button ( ) in the upper-right corner of the Paragraph Styles panel and choose New Paragraph Style. In this exercise, you will create a style and apply it to a headline.ġ In the Pages panel, double-click the page 2 icon.Ģ Select the Type tool ( ) from the Tools panel.ģ Select the text in the headline What is the next innovation in cell phones?Ĥ Choose Type > Paragraph Styles or click the Paragraph Styles button in the panel docking area. A more complete discussion of styles occurs in the next lesson, Lesson 4, “Using Styles to Save Time.” Creating a headline and applying a style

Additionally, styles make it easy to keep a consistent design, as you can use styles to apply multiple text attributes in a single click. If you decide that your body text should be a different size or font, styles let you make the change in one location, avoiding the need to make changes on every page. Styles save time when you’re working with text that shares the same look and feel across a document. For more Adobe InDesign training options, visit AGI’s InDesign Classes.Īdobe InDesign Tutorial: Using styles to format text in InDesign

It is the third lesson in the Adobe InDesign CC Digital Classroom book. This tutorial provides you with a foundation for working with Adobe InDesign styles. What you’ll learn in this InDesign Tutorial:
