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Using styles
25Lesson 1, InDesign CS4 Essential Skills
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4 In the Change Format Settings dialog box, choose Italic from the Character Style menu
and press OK. This will change the format of all text that is found, applying the Italic
style to the found text.
Choose Italic from the Character Style drop-down menu.
5 Press the Change All button. A window appears indicating that the text has been replaced
with the speci ed style. Press OK, then press Done to close the Find/Change dialog box.
InDesign will notify you of how many replacements
are made when using the Find/Change option.
Applying object styles
Object styles let you apply formatting to entire objects such as text frames, picture frames,
or lines. You can use object styles to quickly and consistently apply color to the  ll or stroke
(border) of an object, or apply e ects such as a drop shadow.
In this next section, you’ll place some text into a text frame and then apply an object style to
the frame so that the entire frame is formatted.
1 Double-click on page 1 in the Pages panel. You may need to zoom out a bit to see the
full page. You can quickly change the page magni cation by choosing a percentage from
the magni cation drop-down menu located in the top of the workspace.
2 Choose the Hand tool ( ) from the Tools panel, then drag from the right to the left
until you are able to see the text frame in the pasteboard, located to the right of the page.
3 Select the Type tool ( ) from the Tools panel, and click to insert the cursor inside the text
frame on the pasteboard.
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