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Hi there! In this tutorial you’re going to  

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learn about character styles in 
InDesign, so let’s get started.

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The reason why I did paragraph styles first,  

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is so that you’d not have to 
do much with character styles.

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Let’s do a little bit of theory. You see, on 
the left are some of the major features of the  

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paragraph styles, and on the right are the major 
ones of the character styles. If you look closely,  

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you’ll find that the paragraph styles, 
cover almost all the features, there are,  

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in character styles. However, there is something 
that cannot be done, using the paragraph styles,  

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and is possible, only with character styles, 
so to learn that, let’s get into action.

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Let’s go to page 2. I’m going to 
drag the paragraph styles panel out,  

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and then I’m going to go to window, and 
then styles, and select character styles.  

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Let’s delete the existing character style 
in there, because we’ll make a fresh one.

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I’m going to make a text box, and right-click, 
to fill it with some placeholder text,  

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and then delete some text, to shorten the 
paragraph. Let’s zoom in, and let’s say I  

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want to style this word ‘parum’, so I’m going to 
select it, and I’m going to show you what happens,  

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when I apply the paragraph style to it. 
I’m going to click the small plus button,  

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to create a new paragraph style, double-click, 
and go to basic character formats. From here, I’m  

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going to change the font to ‘Museo Sans’, and font 
style to ‘700’, and update the size to 24 points.  

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Now you see, what happened. As I was making 
changes to the style, it was affecting not just  

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that one word, I expected it to affect, but the 
entire paragraph. Let’s come out of the paragraph  

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style, after hitting okay. Let’s do a Command Z on 
a Mac, or Ctrl Z on a PC, to undo the last action.

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With the word still selected, I’m going to 
add a new character style now. Double-click  

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the new style, and go to basic character formats 
tab. Update the font to ‘Museo Sans Condensed’.  

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Change the font style to 900, and size 
to 30 points, and hit okay. This time,  

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only the highlighted word inherited 
the style, and not the paragraph,  

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and that’s exactly what we wanted. This holds 
good, not just for a word, but even a letter,  

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so let’s select the letter ‘U’ here, and create 
a new character style. Go to the basic character  

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formats tab. Change the font to ‘Abril Titling’, 
and you see all our actions are restricted to  

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only that one letter we selected, before creating 
this character style. These are some of the other  

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options, you can set, using character styles, 
whereas, if you go to the paragraph styles, you  

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can find a wide variety of options, to chose from. 
I hope you’ve understood the basic difference  

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between the paragraph styles, and the character 
styles, so I expect you to use them wisely.

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Alright guys, that concludes 
our session. In the next lesson,  

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we’re going to learn a very interesting style, 
called ‘GREP’ style, so see you in a bit.