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Hi there!

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In this video we’ll be talking about the
wonders of conditional text in InDesign, so

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let’s get started.

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I have a few sentences typed in here, and
you could see that every sentence has the

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American, as well as the UK spelling of the
words.

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Basically, instead of two completely different
sets of sentences, I’d like to have just

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one version, and using the conditional text,
I can switch between the two versions.

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Let’s go to window, and then type and tables,
and select ‘conditional text.’

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In the popup menu, you can see that at this
point, the entire text is set to unconditional.

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So let’s select the American spelling of
the word ‘color’, and then click the small

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plus button at the bottom of the conditional
text panel.

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Let’s rename it ‘US Spelling’, and there
are other settings you can play with, so you

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can have it underlined, or highlighted, so
let’s keep it underlined for this one.

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You can even set the appearance of the chosen
method, from wavy, solid, or dashed, so let’s

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keep it wavy, and lastly, you can set the
color of the indicator from a wide variety

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of available colors, and then hit okay.

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Since the conditional text is set, let’s
highlight the word ‘color’, and click

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the new conditional text we’ve just created,
and you shall find the blue wavy underline

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appearing below the word.

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Similarly, select the word ‘flavor’, and
set it as US spelling.

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Likewise, do it for the rest of the American
spellings in all the sentences.

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Each time you set a word to the American spelling,
a blue underline should appear below it.

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Now highlight the UK spelling of the word
‘color’, and click the small plus button

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at the bottom of the conditional text panel,
and rename it ‘UK spelling.’

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Let’s change the appearance to dashed, and
hit okay.

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Now with the word selected, select the ‘UK
Spelling’ conditional text.

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Much like earlier, select all the UK spellings,
and assign them to the ‘UK spelling’ conditional

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text.

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Now comes the best part.

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Suppose I want to print the sentences with
the UK spelling only, so all I need to do

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is click the eye icon next to the US spelling
to turn the visibility off, and it shall show

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me the sentences with just the UK spelling.

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Similarly, if I want the sentences with just
the US spellings, I’m going to turn it on,

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and turn the UK spelling off, and job’s
done.

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You can even chose to hide the indicators
from the dropdown below, should you want to.

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So it’s a very nice feature, particularly
when you have two, or more variations of the

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same thing, like shoe sizes, or spellings,
or measurements etc., so do make good use

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of it.

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Alright guys!

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That concludes our session, and I’m going
to see you in just a bit.

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Good bye!