1 00:00:06,569 --> 00:00:08,240 Hi there! 2 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:13,450 In this tutorial, we’ll be talking about ‘paragraph styles’. However, before discussing 3 00:00:13,450 --> 00:00:19,150 paragraph styles, it’s imperative to know what styles mean, as far as InDesign is concerned. 4 00:00:19,150 --> 00:00:26,349 Let me grab the text tool, and type in Adobe InDesign. At this point, the font is Minion 5 00:00:26,349 --> 00:00:33,350 Pro, and the font size is 12 points. I did not set the font, or the size. As I typed 6 00:00:33,350 --> 00:00:40,129 in, these were the default options. Let’s change the font to Arial Black. Let’s underline 7 00:00:40,129 --> 00:00:47,960 the text, and also, change the text color, to red. What I just did is, added some styles 8 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:53,780 to the text. Paragraph styles are nothing, but a collection of rules, that defines the 9 00:00:53,780 --> 00:00:59,320 way your text behaves, and looks. They contain formatting for both the characters, 10 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:02,080 and the paragraphs. 11 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:08,310 Why do we need them? Well, they can save you time, simplify your work, and help keep 12 00:01:08,310 --> 00:01:14,759 your formatting more consistent and professional. Let’s delete this text box. Let’s go to 13 00:01:14,759 --> 00:01:22,520 window, and then styles, and select ‘paragraph styles.’ Let’s make a text box, and then 14 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:29,110 right-click, and fill some placeholder text. I’m going to divide this text into a heading, 15 00:01:29,110 --> 00:01:35,499 a sub-heading, and some paragraphs. There are two ways you can add paragraph styles 16 00:01:35,499 --> 00:01:42,140 to your text. In the first way, you can style your text first, and then add it to a paragraph 17 00:01:42,140 --> 00:01:49,210 style, so let’s highlight the heading, and change the font to Roboto Black. Let’s also 18 00:01:49,210 --> 00:01:56,590 change the font size to 18 points. Click the underline option from the toolbar above, and 19 00:01:56,590 --> 00:02:03,240 change the font color to blue. Next, highlight the sub-heading, and change the font to Roboto 20 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:11,970 Medium, font size to 14 points, and font color to pink. Finally, highlight the rest of the 21 00:02:11,970 --> 00:02:18,780 text, and change the font to Roboto Regular. Alright, we’ve added styles to our text, 22 00:02:18,780 --> 00:02:23,520 but we haven’t assigned them to paragraph styles yet, so let’s select the heading, 23 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:28,411 and click the small plus button at the bottom of the paragraph styles panel, to create a 24 00:02:28,411 --> 00:02:34,670 new paragraph style. Select the new paragraph style, and double-click the blank area, just 25 00:02:34,670 --> 00:02:41,500 left to the style name. Let’s rename the style ‘heading’. Under the style settings, 26 00:02:41,500 --> 00:02:46,990 you should be able to see what styles we’ve applied to this paragraph style, so just hit 27 00:02:46,990 --> 00:02:51,280 okay. Time to select the sub-heading, and then click 28 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:58,990 the plus button to create another style. Double-click and rename it ‘sub-heading’, and hit okay. 29 00:02:58,990 --> 00:03:04,570 Finally, select the rest of the text, and click the plus button, and double-click the 30 00:03:04,570 --> 00:03:10,540 style, and rename it ‘text’. This is one of the ways, we can create paragraph 31 00:03:10,540 --> 00:03:15,450 styles, for our text. To test it, let’s create another text box, and fill it with 32 00:03:15,450 --> 00:03:20,730 placeholder text. You see, because in the paragraph styles panel, the heading style 33 00:03:20,730 --> 00:03:27,340 was selected already, which is why, this text appears so. Let’s click the basic paragraph 34 00:03:27,340 --> 00:03:34,210 style from the styles panel, and the text shall revert to the default settings. Let’s 35 00:03:34,210 --> 00:03:40,760 create a heading, a sub-heading and some paragraphs, much like earlier. Click anywhere on the heading, 36 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:45,460 you don’t necessarily have to select the entire heading, and then click the heading 37 00:03:45,460 --> 00:03:51,930 paragraph style, and the style shall be applied to the text. Similarly, click anywhere on 38 00:03:51,930 --> 00:03:57,100 sub-heading, and click the sub-heading style and it shall be applied. Lastly, with the 39 00:03:57,100 --> 00:04:02,260 text, when you click the first paragraph, and then apply the style, it will be applied 40 00:04:02,260 --> 00:04:07,160 only to the first paragraph, so you’ll have to select the entire text, and then click 41 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:12,690 the text style, and it shall be applied. Let’s delete these text boxes, and also 42 00:04:12,690 --> 00:04:18,820 the styles we’ve created. Make a fresh text box, and right-click to fill it with placeholder 43 00:04:18,820 --> 00:04:26,069 text. Much like earlier, divide the text into a heading, sub-heading, and some paragraphs. 44 00:04:26,069 --> 00:04:31,219 The second way to apply paragraph styles is to first create the paragraph styles, and 45 00:04:31,219 --> 00:04:37,330 then apply them to your text. Remember! At this point we don’t have our text selected. 46 00:04:37,330 --> 00:04:43,400 Let’s begin creating some styles, so click the small plus button to create a new style, 47 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:49,240 and then double-click the style, and rename it ‘heading’. You can see in the style 48 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:53,479 settings, that it’s set to default, except the font, because it picked the last font 49 00:04:53,479 --> 00:04:58,720 used. There are way too many settings, that you can find on the left, that can be applied 50 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:04,600 to our text. Let’s go to basic character formats tab, and change the font style to 51 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:12,120 bold. Update the font size to 24 points, and check the underline box. Since we did not 52 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:16,870 select our text before coming to the paragraph style options, whether we check the preview 53 00:05:16,870 --> 00:05:21,990 button or not, does not really matter. Go through other tabs, to see what settings you 54 00:05:21,990 --> 00:05:27,210 can play with. Like I mentioned, you can completely change the look of your text from the styles 55 00:05:27,210 --> 00:05:32,830 option, but for now, hit okay. Click anywhere on the heading, and then click the heading 56 00:05:32,830 --> 00:05:37,430 style, and it shall be applied. This time, let’s click once on the sub-heading 57 00:05:37,430 --> 00:05:43,740 to place our cursor, and then create a new style. Double-click, and rename this style 58 00:05:43,740 --> 00:05:50,370 ‘sub-heading’. Check the preview box this time, and now whatever settings you’ll change 59 00:05:50,370 --> 00:05:56,150 here, will instantly get reflected onto the text. Let’s go to ‘basic character formats’ 60 00:05:56,150 --> 00:06:03,030 tab. Update the font style to ‘medium’. Change the font size to 18 points. You see 61 00:06:03,030 --> 00:06:08,840 how the settings are being applied instantly, to our text. Let’s go to ‘character color’ 62 00:06:08,840 --> 00:06:16,309 tab, and click the pink color, and hit okay. Similarly, let’s quickly create a text style, 63 00:06:16,309 --> 00:06:22,389 and change the font size to 14 points, and apply it to the text. Since our cursor was 64 00:06:22,389 --> 00:06:28,159 sitting on the first paragraph, when we applied the text style, only that paragraph took effect 65 00:06:28,159 --> 00:06:32,659 of the style, so let’s apply it to the second paragraph as well. 66 00:06:32,659 --> 00:06:36,610 Suppose you don’t like the pink color on your sub-heading, and would like to change 67 00:06:36,610 --> 00:06:42,650 it from the color option on top, so let’s change it to blue. Now we have overridden 68 00:06:42,650 --> 00:06:48,370 the style, that we applied to the sub-heading, something that is permissible, but in a situation, 69 00:06:48,370 --> 00:06:52,560 where you have a lot of text, and you have overridden several styles, that you might 70 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:57,229 have applied earlier, how would you know, which ones are overridden, and which ones 71 00:06:57,229 --> 00:07:04,409 are style-driven? Well! You see this icon with an [a+] sign on it, It’s a style override 72 00:07:04,409 --> 00:07:10,650 highlighter. Click it once, and InDesign will highlight all the instances of the overridden 73 00:07:10,650 --> 00:07:15,879 text in your document. Another nice feature is redefining the style. 74 00:07:15,879 --> 00:07:21,539 Let’s select these words, and change the font to Silom. For some reason, I really like 75 00:07:21,539 --> 00:07:26,620 this font, and would like my text style, to be changed to this font, so I don’t have 76 00:07:26,620 --> 00:07:31,360 to go to the text style, and make changes there. With the text selected, all I need 77 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:37,240 to do is, click the burger menu, and select ‘redefine style’, and my entire text style 78 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:42,600 shall be redefined, according to this new style. Let’s undo the last operation, using 79 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:49,490 Command Z on a Mac, or Ctrl Z on a PC. Let’s make another text box on the right, and fill 80 00:07:49,490 --> 00:07:55,349 it with some placeholder text. Apply the basic paragraph style to it, and make a heading 81 00:07:55,349 --> 00:08:01,400 out of this text. Now suppose I want all the styles of my heading on the left, plus I want 82 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:07,689 to change the color as well, so the best way to do this is to create a new style, double-click, 83 00:08:07,689 --> 00:08:14,289 and name it ‘heading 2’, and in the ‘based on’ option, select heading, so what it does 84 00:08:14,289 --> 00:08:19,629 is, it applies the style of the heading style that we created earlier, and now on top of 85 00:08:19,629 --> 00:08:24,789 that, you can add whatever styles you want, so we’re going to go to ‘character color’ 86 00:08:24,789 --> 00:08:28,559 tab, and change the color to ‘green’, and hit okay. 87 00:08:28,559 --> 00:08:34,419 Lastly, let’s randomly select some text, from the text box on the left, and change 88 00:08:34,419 --> 00:08:40,490 its font color to pink. Now when I click the style override highlighter, it clearly tells 89 00:08:40,490 --> 00:08:45,870 me that I have two instances, where I’ve overridden the styles. To clear the overrides, 90 00:08:45,870 --> 00:08:50,990 no matter how many instances you have, all you need to do is, click this small button 91 00:08:50,990 --> 00:08:56,399 on the left of the plus button, and it shall revert the text to the originally applied 92 00:08:56,399 --> 00:09:02,910 styles. Let’s click the sub-heading once, and then clear the overrides here as well. 93 00:09:02,910 --> 00:09:07,459 Alright guys, that concludes our session, and I’m sure by now you’re comfortable 94 00:09:07,459 --> 00:09:12,690 with paragraph styles, because we’ll be discussing the character styles next, so see 95 00:09:12,690 --> 00:09:13,399 you in a bit.