How do I update a Paragraph Style in Adobe InDesign?
Lesson 46 from: Adobe InDesign FundamentalsDaniel Walter Scott
How do I update a Paragraph Style in Adobe InDesign?
Lesson 46 from: Adobe InDesign FundamentalsDaniel Walter Scott
Lesson Info
46. How do I update a Paragraph Style in Adobe InDesign?
Lessons
Overview
1InDesign Tutorial Basics Class Introduction
01:50 2Exercise files & Projects
02:39 3What Does Adobe InDesign do?
01:34 4What are the differences between InDesign and PageMaker, Illustrator, Photoshop, Quark?
05:10PROJECT 1: One page flyer
5How to change MM to Inches & changing UK to US dictionary in InDesign?
01:39 6New document in InDesign - what is bleed & slug?
08:08How to create your own RGB & CMYK colors in Adobe InDesign
08:39 8How do I steal colors from a logo using InDesign?
03:14 9How to color the background of a page in InDesign?
03:33 10Importing resizing rotating & flipping images & Logos inside InDesign
07:53 11How to Import text from Microsoft Word into Adobe InDesign
05:46 12How to group, ungroup & rotate images in Adobe InDesign
05:12 13How to make a dotted line, dashed line & borders in InDesign
05:20 14How best to preview your work in Adobe InDesign
05:16 15How to make a simple PDF from InDesign
06:43 16How to save your InDesign file as a JPEG
03:18 17Why should I use CC Libraries in InDesign?
05:08 18How to share your InDesign files with others by using package document
04:26 19Class Exercise 1
03:24 20Quiz - One Page Flyer
PROJECT 2: Other people's files
21Ideas, Inspiration & starter templates
04:59 22Working with other people's InDesign documents, missing images
03:12 23How to find missing fonts in InDesign?
04:27 24How to replace images in InDesign?
01:30 25Opacity, transparency and see through ness in Adobe InDesign
02:29 26Why is InDesign adding [Converted] and making me 'save as'
01:06 27What if I can’t find the InDesign file - can I open the PDF?
02:37 28Quiz - Other people's files
PROJECT 3: Company Newsletter/Brochure
29Creating a new company newsletter or brochure, what are spreads in InDesign
06:58 30How to use a Master Page in Adobe InDesign
05:33 31How do to add automatic page numbering to a InDesign file
04:11 32Removing a master page & deleting parts off the master page in InDesign
02:30 33Production Video 1
02:53 34What is Effective PPI & Image resolution in the InDesign links panel
06:52 35How to add drop shadows to an image or logo in InDesign
04:20 36What is TypeKit used for in Adobe InDesign?
08:37 37How to add the Copyright, Registered & Trademark symbols in InDesign
05:08 38Where can I find the different versions of letters in InDesign - Ligatures.
03:35 39How to add placeholder text & lorem ipsum & get a word count in InDesign
03:04 40Importing Text from Microsoft Word & keeping or removing the formatting
02:58 41Creating Columns in a text box using Adobe InDesign
01:46 42How do I justify text & turn off hyphenation in InDesign?
03:59 43What is the space after & leading in Adobe InDesign?
05:22 44How to underline text with a full width line in Adobe InDesign?
01:53 45How do I make a paragraph style in Adobe InDesign?
06:06 46How do I update a Paragraph Style in Adobe InDesign?
04:28 47How to use Find & Change to remove double spaces after a period or full stop.
02:37 48Stealing colours from images, is there a format painter in Adobe InDesign?
03:09 49InDesign Class Exercise 2 - Magazine Spread
04:22 50Quiz - Company Newsletter/Brochure
PROJECT 4: Long Business Document
51How to bring in lots of text into InDesign at once
08:11 52How do I import paragraph styles from another document
12:45 53How do I insert completely blank pages in Adobe InDesign
02:03 54How do I create a gradient in Adobe InDesign
07:20 55Do I need to use layers in Adobe InDesign
05:29 56Opacity advanced, mater marks and Transparency Effects in Adobe InDesign
04:24 57How do I add rounded corners to an image or box in Adobe InDesign?
02:52 58How to add a large first letter to my text aka Drop Cap
02:16 59How do I increase the space between letters in Adobe InDesign aka Tracking or Kerning
02:32 60How do I get text to move around an image or shape using text wrap
03:57 61Why can’t I put text over anything that has text wrap applied?
03:25 62How to draw an arrow or triangle or star in Adobe InDesign
06:40 63How do I put an image inside other shapes like a circle - cropping
02:47 64What is Adobe Stock
04:17 65Where can I find free images & icons that I can use for my business
04:23 66How do I add bullets and numbered lists in Adobe InDesign?
00:51 67How can I create a table inside Adobe InDesign?
07:10 68How do I convert tables from Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel into Adobe InDesign
04:26 69How do I get images to move with the text in Adobe InDesign using anchored objects?
03:22 70How do I create a Line Break, Column Breaks & Page Breaks in Adobe InDesign?
04:16 71How do I make an automatic table of contents in Adobe InDesign?
04:46 72How do you change the tabs in Adobe InDesign?
04:30 73Can I change the numbering of my pages so 1 starts later in the InDesign file?
03:26 74Quiz - Long Business Document
PROJECT 5: Conference Name Badge
75How do I combine Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in InDesign?
09:04 76CLASS EXERCISE: Create your own business card
01:16 77Quiz - Conference Name Badge
What next
78How to create a mockup for your portfolio using InDesign
04:07 79InDesign cheat sheet & shortcuts
12:45 80BONUS: Software Updates
40:41 81What to do after this InDesign tutorial class?
01:07 82Quiz - What Next
Final Quiz
83Final Quiz
Lesson Info
How do I update a Paragraph Style in Adobe InDesign?
Hi there in this video, we're going to look at adjusting our paragraph styles, doing things like clearing and redefining styles. It'll make sense in this video, let's go and do it now. So the first one and the one I use the most is redefining, say go into here and actually I want to highlight this, but Roboto bold. Actually, I want to start using our Roboto slab, so Roboto Okay. And slab. Okay, I'm gonna use the Roboto slab bolt click on him. Okay, so I've adjusted it now. What happens is can you see here, it's still my subheading. But see this little plus thing here means that if I had like this, no plus I like this one. It means that it's pretty much the subheading, but there are some additions you've done to it often, all you need to do is hover above it. And can you see, I can't really point at it. Okay, but you can see that says Roboto slab has been adjusted. So I'll actually tell you what's been adjusted and you can decide like actually I was going to leave it like that or in my ...
case, I'm like, I like it and I wanted to apply it to all of the styles, so I want to do something called redefine style. Okay, so what I can do is with it selected, I right click it and I say redefine style Okay, Based on the selection I have now you'll notice that that updated. That updated all for me. So as you're working, you make small adjustments. Okay, you like this, but you want to change it. Maybe two, maybe 9.5 because it's just not fitting and then you can right click this and say redefine style and you can see all of it came along for the right. I'm going to undo that, I'm not sure why I did that. Another way of doing that same thing is if you have nothing selected, okay, and if I double click, say my first paragraph here, I can go in and say I want to to improve you on just so I can see it while I'm working. Go to basic character formats, there's lots you can do in a paragraph style we're gonna be working with and you will mainly use basic character formats, you can see in here. Roboto slab. Yes, that's perfect, that's perfect. Okay, but what I would like to do is is I'd like it to be bold bold. You can see it's being bold up there. Let's click. Ok, so that's a different way of adjusting it. You either redefined by changing it, highlighting it, right clicking it, redefining it or have nothing selected. Double click it and then go and make your adjustments. It doesn't really matter. That's bugging me. Hyphen Okay, grab my type tool paragraph I've been gone nice. Now, the last thing we'll look at is something called clearing overrides and that just means that say I've made this and there's been some like I'm playing around with the tracking, which is the space between letters. Say I'm going to make it really big. Okay. And let's say that it's adjusted so you can see here it's this, but there's a little plus and it says okay, it's the same except you can see in brackets there. The tracking is at 3 20 there's a mistake. I'm like that's not meant to be like that. Why has that got a plus? So what I can do is I can right click or just use this button down here that says clear overrides and all that does is say get rid of the things that aren't part of the original paragraph style. Cool. So let's say now that we've got this lockdown and we like this and we're going to use it throughout this long document and other documents. Okay for this company that we're doing work for. So what we want to do is add it to our CC libraries. So make sure we've got the Green and Heart library selected up here and you've got two ways I can have this selected, click the little plus button like we did earlier. And I can say I would like, I don't want the text field color. He's already in there, but I want the paragraph style and I can click add there's my Green at heart subheading okay. Or you can do this. I'm gonna select all of these guys don't want this basic paragraph that's nothing okay. And I'm gonna click this little icon here. They will go across. Now. The cool thing about that, remember is that doesn't matter what document I have open now, all of these guys will come along for the ride. Unfortunately, I had something selected at the same time. So it's applied body copy to it back to subheading. All right. But if we're getting the hang of these paragraph styles, aren't we? They're super useful. And you're going to get documents that have them already and you need to know how to adjust them and use them, especially when you're working on longer documents. If though you are a designer who works on really small flyers, postcards, little social media posts, then you're probably not going to use paragraph styles like you should, but when the text is so small and you're doing so many kind of like custom stuff, everything is different. Then there might not be any reason to use paragraph styles. But as soon as you get into like more than one page or consistent monthly newsletters, then paragraph styles are the way forward
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Ratings and Reviews
Jerome Clark
I think Dan is very good at explaining and breaking down complex content. I like the way there are lots of small sessions which is good for keeping focus. I would advise anyone who does this course and is taking notes to label which session the notes are referring to as I have struggled to find a few looking back and this helped me. It really made me realise how much I didn't know and had been fudging. Thank you Dan I will be taking plenty more of your courses in the coming months it's been a great help.
Giuseppe Lipari
Excellent course, instructor is great well spoken, clear and a great teacher. I highly recommend this class for beginners and those who learned indesign on their own.