Get in the habit of using Styles and see your InDesign documents become more polished and the time spent formatting your designs cut dramatically. In this example, you can see how the Style applies all the formatting characteristics of the original shape, such as the Fill Colour, Stroke Colour, Stroke Weight and Stroke Type, to this shape created using the Ellipse Tool (L), but the Style doesn’t alter the original shape of the shape/frame. ![]() Click to select the shape you want to edit, then click once on the name of the Object Style in the Object Style panel. You can then apply the Object Style to other objects (frames, shapes) in your document. Once you’re happy with the formatting, click OK to add the Style to the Object Styles panel. The top left-hand menu lists attributes already applied to the shape, but you can add extra attributes from the bottom left-hand menu, such as transparency, drop shadow, bevel etc. In the window that opens give the Style a name, here I’ve named the Style ‘Magazine – Polygon’. Select just the shape alone (you can also copy formatting from a text or image frame) and select New Object Style from the drop-down menu in the Object Styles panel. ![]() Open the Object Styles panel by going to Window > Styles > Object Styles.Īs an example, this polygon, with a solid white Fill and a decorative dark red Stroke, is being used as a background shape for a magazine layout (the text frame is separate from the polygon, and layered on top). Formatting attributes like Fill, Stroke (colour and weight), gradients and transparencies, as well as text wrap settings, can be saved as an Object Style and applied to objects. You can apply an Object Style to graphics, shapes and frames. You can apply the Style to a paragraph by resting your cursor in a paragraph of text and clicking the name of the Style in the Paragraph Styles panel. When you’re happy with the settings you’ve defined for the Style and given the Style a name, back under the General options, click OK. This allows you to ‘nest’ a Character Style within the Paragraph Style, allowing you to define more specific formatting rules for some characters in the paragraph. You can also create a Nested Style by selecting Drop Cap and Nested Styles from the left-hand menu. Check the Preview box to see your edits as you go. The top menu lists the formatting attributes already applied to the text, but you can add further attributes from the bottom menu. You’ll notice there are two sets of menus running along the left-hand side of the panel. You can then either place your cursor somewhere in the paragraph or highlight the paragraph before selecting New Paragraph Style from the Paragraph Styles ( Window > Styles > Paragraph Styles) panel’s drop-down menu. You can apply a Drop Cap and Indents, as well as Font, Size, Weight, Leading, Tracking and Alignment. To create a Paragraph Style, first format a single paragraph of text. Step 3: Create and Apply a Paragraph Style UNLIMITED DOWNLOADS: 50 Million+ Fonts & Design Assets DOWNLOAD NOW You can give the style a recognisable name, and scroll through the formatting options from the left-hand menu editing them further if you want to. Highlight the relevant text and either click on the small square icon at the bottom right of the panel ( Create new style) or select New Character Style from the panel’s drop-down menu. Open the Character Styles panel ( Window > Styles > Character Styles). In this example, for a magazine layout, I have set the first word of a short extract in a decorative font, LeckerliOne Regular, and set the size to 32 pt and the colour to a dark red CMYK swatch. Once you’ve formatted a letter, word or phrase, you can save your edits as a Character Style, to apply to other parts of your text with ease. ![]() Step 2: Create and Apply a Character Style Object Styles has its own panel ( Window > Styles > Object Styles). Table, Table Styles and Cell Styles are grouped together in one panel. A Paragraph Style will remember the formatting applied to a whole paragraph (a section of text separated from other text by line breaks). A Character Style remembers formatting for single characters, words or phrases. ![]() Character Styles and Paragraph Styles can both be applied to text.
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