From the course: InDesign 2024 Essential Training

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 24,800 courses taught by industry experts.

Using character styles

Using character styles - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign 2024 Essential Training

Start my 1-month free trial Buy for my team

Using character styles

“

- Now that we know how to use Paragraph styles, Character styles will be a breeze. There's one big difference between defining a Paragraph style and a Character style, however. Paragraph styles always define all the characters in paragraph formatting, the font, the size, the indents, everything that describes a paragraph. But Character styles are different. They can be set up to define just one attribute, like just the font or just the size, or the size and the color but nothing else. Let's see how it's done. First, let's jump to the previous spread of this document with option or alt page up. Now, I'll place my text cursor inside this paragraph and let's zoom in with a command plus or a control plus. Let's type that a few times. Because we're going to be working with Character styles, we'd better open the Character Styles panel, which you can find here at the bottom of the dock. Or if you don't see that in your dock, you…

Contents