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Character formatting

Character formatting - InDesign Tutorial

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Character formatting

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Formatting text is probably one of the main areas where InDesign really shines so you can expect a lot of options both for character formatting and paragraph formatting and first we will look at character formatting options. Now we could spend hours just talking about these but I will be focusing on the things that they might ask questions about in the exam. So first of all you need to make sure you select the text that you want to make changes to and in In this case, I'm just going to select the first sentence, so having this selected, I will be able to change things like the typeface and the style of that typeface, so I'm just going to choose Caslon in this case, but maybe change it to Myriad, which is a Sans Serif font and we can immediately see the change happening here, then we can change the weight or style of this maybe to black italic and that looks definitely very different from the rest of the text. Now this is already one important thing worth mentioning that character…

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