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InDesign Text and Object Styles Guide

InDesign has two types of text styles - paragraph styles that apply formatting for both character and paragraph attributes, and character styles that apply formatting only to character attributes. Paragraph styles can be modified and deleted, while the Basic Paragraph style cannot be deleted. Additional paragraph styles beyond the basic style can be created and deleted, with their formatting settings found in the Paragraph Styles palette.

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InDesign Text and Object Styles Guide

InDesign has two types of text styles - paragraph styles that apply formatting for both character and paragraph attributes, and character styles that apply formatting only to character attributes. Paragraph styles can be modified and deleted, while the Basic Paragraph style cannot be deleted. Additional paragraph styles beyond the basic style can be created and deleted, with their formatting settings found in the Paragraph Styles palette.

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Text and Object Styles in InDesign

Defining Text Styles

InDesign has two types of text styles.


Paragraph styles apply formatting for both character and
paragraph attributes.
Character styles apply formatting for only character
attributes.
Defining Text Styles
To Set the Basic Paragraph Attributes

Click inside a text frame, highlight type, and use the


Control palette, Character palette, or Paragraph palette to
change the text attributes.
To Set the Basic Paragraph Attributes

This can change your font, size of text, alignment, tab


options, underlining, etc…
More than one style can be set up.
The Basic Paragraph style can be modified but not deleted.
New Paragraph Styles

Many paragraph styles can be made and deleted.


These settings can be found in the Paragraph Styles
palette under the arrow.

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