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Using styles
Adobe InDesign CS4 Digital Classroom
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Using styles
Earlier you worked with paragraph styles to format type. As you saw, these provided a method
of applying consistent formatting to the text. Similarly, styles let you easily and repetitively
format smaller groups of text along with entire frames and even tables. You’ll review the process
of applying paragraph styles, then move into other types of styles that can be applied. Later, in
Lesson 4, “Working with Styles,” you will work with styles in more detail.
Applying paragraph styles
As you’ve seen, paragraph styles apply formatting to an entire paragraph of text, and you are not
able to apply paragraph styles to an individual word within a paragraph—unless it is the only
word in the paragraph, as in this example.
1 Select the Type tool ( ) from the Tools panel and click anywhere inside the word January
located in the  rst line of the frame on the left side of page 3.
2 In the Paragraph Styles panel, choose Calendar Month to apply the correct formatting to
the word
January. Repeat the process to format the word February, and then format March
by applying the Calendar Month Paragraph Style.
3 Using the Type tool, click and drag to select the text located between the January and
February headings, then click the Calendar Event style in the Paragraph Styles panel.
Repeat this process to select all the text between February and March, and also all the
March events.
Format the text using the Calendar Event style
from the Paragraph Styles panel.
Notice that the Calendar Event style applied several attributes to the events in a single
click, styling the date bold, the name red, and the web address in italic. The Calendar
Event style includes several styles that are grouped together into a nested style. A nested
style automatically applies several formatting attributes to text within a paragraph. You
will learn more about nested styles in Lesson 4, “Working with Styles.”
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