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Applying formatting to a paragraph

Applying formatting to a paragraph - InDesign Tutorial

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Applying formatting to a paragraph

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- [Instructor] We've already talked about formatting that you can apply to individual characters, such as kerning or underline. Now let's get into formatting that you apply to a whole paragraph. First, let's zoom in on this text on the right side of the page by holding down Command + space bar or Control + space bar in Windows and then dragging to the right. Now, I'll double click on this heading to place my type cursor in it. You may notice that I did not select the entire paragraph. I just have the cursor flashing in there. That's all you need when you apply paragraph formatting. Of course, that's very different than character formatting, where you do need to select the characters that you want to change. Okay, up here at the top of my screen, you'll see that the Control panel is currently set to Character Formatting. That's the little button that has an A in it. So let's click the paragraph symbol and that switches…

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