Why Should I Use Character Styles In Adobe InDesign CC
Lesson 59 from: Adobe InDesign MasteryDaniel Walter Scott
Why Should I Use Character Styles In Adobe InDesign CC
Lesson 59 from: Adobe InDesign MasteryDaniel Walter Scott
Lesson Info
59. Why Should I Use Character Styles In Adobe InDesign CC
Lessons
Overview
1Introduction To Adobe InDesign CC Advanced
02:24 2Getting Started With The Adobe InDesign CC Advanced Class
02:38 3Adjusting Your Workspace For Maximum Amazingness
08:20Fonts
4Setting The Default Font Size For New Documents Adobe InDesign
01:14 5Special Features For Typekit & Open Type Fonts
07:43 6Where To Get Great Free Fonts For Use In InDesign
03:34Mastering Your Fonts In Adobe InDesign CC
03:39 8What The Font - Font Guess In Adobe InDesign CC
06:20 9How To Pick Beautiful Font Pairings In Adobe InDesign CC
02:27 10Quiz - Fonts
Creative Cloud APP
11Free Icons Using Adobe Market In InDesign CC
05:45Color
12How To Use The Color Theme Tool In Adobe InDesign CC
03:13 13Using Color Modes In Adobe InDesign CC
02:37 14Importing Colors & Setting Default Colors In Adobe InDesign CC
06:58 15Finding Great Colours Using Adobe Color For Use In Adobe InDesign CC
01:11 16Appearance Of Black & Proofing Colours
07:59 17Draw Lot Of Shapes At Once InDesign Gridify Live Distribute
13:15 18Quiz - Color
Drawing
19How To Make Arrows In Adobe InDesign CC
04:13 20How To Draw Complex Flowers In Adobe InDesign CC
07:25 21Quiz - Drawing
Paragraph Goodness
22How Text Boxes Can Auto-Expand In Adobe InDesign CC With Auto Size
04:41 23Placeholder Text Alternatives In Adobe InDesign CC
05:43 24How To Add Paragraph Borders & Shading In Adobe InDesign CC
09:57 25Paragraph Vs Single Line Composer In Adobe InDesign CC
02:17 26How To Make Paragraphs Span 2 Columns In Adobe InDesign CC
03:00 27Mastering Justification In Adobe InDesign CC
04:42 28Mastering Hyphenation Options Using Adobe InDesign CC
06:54 29Optical Margin Alignment In Adobe InDesign CC
02:25 30The Secret Power Of Keep Options In Adobe InDesign CC
05:00 31Advanced Anchored Objects In Adobe InDesign CC
04:27 32How To Use Conditional Text In Adobe InDesign CC
07:23 33Quiz - Paragraph Goodness
Charts & Infographics
34How To Create Pie Charts & Bar Graphs In Adobe InDesign CC
09:37 35Quiz - Charts & Infographics
Interactive Documents
36The Pros & Cons Of The Various Interactive Types In InDesign CC
08:46 37How To Create An Interactive PDF In Adobe InDesign CC
08:48 38How To Add Interactive Page Transitions In Adobe InDesign CC
03:58 39How To Add Navigation To An Interactive PDF In Adobe InDesign CC
06:01 40What Is Publish Online In Adobe InDesign CC
06:39 41How To Publish Your Adobe InDesign Publish Online Documents
03:37 42How To Add Video To Adobe InDesign CC Documents
06:56 43How To Create Interactive Button Triggered Animations In InDesign CC
05:53 44How To Make A Multi State Object In Adobe InDesign CC
03:36 45How To Add Adobe Animate CC To InDesign CC Files
03:39 46Adding Maps & Calendars To Interactive Documents In InDesign CC
02:52 47How To Create QR Codes In Adobe InDesign CC
02:49 48Quiz - Interactive Documents
Keyboard Shortcuts
49Keyboard Shortcuts In Adobe InDesign CC That Will Change Your Life
11:04 50Keyboard Shortcuts
Long Documents
51How To Automatically Place Lots Of Text Onto Multiple Pages In InDesign CC
08:07 52How To Make A Cross Reference In Adobe InDesign CC
06:33 53How To Create An Index In Adobe InDesign CC
05:21 54Add Document Name Automatically To The Page In InDesign Using Text Variables
05:47 55How To Use The Adobe InDesign CC Book Feature
04:53 56Quiz - Long Documents
Preferences
57Changing Preferences For Advanced InDesign Users
05:24Workflow Speed Tips
58How To Speed Up Your Workflow For Advanced InDesign CC Users Styles
03:34Styles
59Why Should I Use Character Styles In Adobe InDesign CC
04:09 60Advanced Paragraph Styles In Adobe InDesign CC
01:57 61How To Use & Map Word Styles In With Adobe InDesign Styles
03:18 62How To Create Nested Styles In Adobe InDesign CC
04:08 63How To Create A Grep Style In Adobe InDesign CC
05:58 64How To Use A Next Style In Adobe InDesign CC
05:27 65Advanced Object Styles In Adobe InDesign CC
07:51 66Quiz - Styles
Multiple Documents
67Best Practices For Working Across Multiple Documents In Adobe InDesign
10:06Images
68How To Use Adobe Stock With Adobe InDesign CC
03:16 69How To Crop Images Inside Of Text In Adobe InDesign CC
04:11 70Using Adobe Comp CC To Make InDesign Layouts On Your Mobile Phone Or Ipad
03:47 71Quiz - Images
CC Libraries
72Advanced Use Of CC Libraries In Adobe InDesign CC
09:40Photoshop & Illustrator
73How To Get The Most Of Photoshop & Illustrator In Adobe InDesign CC
13:32Forms
74How To Create A PDF Form Using Adobe InDesign CC
21:17 75Quiz - Forms
Pages
76Advanced Use Of The Pages Panel In Adobe InDesign CC
08:22 77How To Place InDesign Documents Inside Of Each Other
01:55 78Quiz - Pages
Scripts
79How To Use And Install Scripts In Adobe InDesign CC
08:42Speed Up InDesign
80How To Speed Up InDesign When It’s Running Really Slow
07:34 81Quiz - Speed Up InDesign
Exporting & Printing Tricks
82Advanced Exporting & Printing Tricks For Adobe InDesign CC
02:32 83Quiz - Exporting & Printing Tricks
Next Steps
84BONUS: Software Updates
03:42 85What To Do Once You’ve Finished Your Advanced InDesign CC Training Class
01:04Final Quiz
86Final Quiz
Lesson Info
Why Should I Use Character Styles In Adobe InDesign CC
Hi there, we're going to create a character style. Why? Because we've created a character style for this first paragraph here. And the nice thing about it is that because it's connected to a paragraph style, I can open up buddy, copy. It's picking you font. Let's make comic sands and our lovely character style adjusts. It's pink, it's bold, but it's taking the leave from our paragraph style and staying in that font, but being bold and pink and awfully comic sands, sorry, comic sands. Alright, let's look at how to set one of these up. Okay, so to learn what a character style does, let's first of all go to file new and creative document. It's got a print, we're just gonna use us later. We're going to make it two columns click create. We're gonna bring in some long text. So let's go to file and go to place. We're gonna use one of our earlier shortcuts. I want to bring it in from 06 styles. It's called text. I want to turn on show import options, but I don't want to turn it on forever. So,...
remember I hold down my shift key when I click open and I get the little custom box just for this one instance and I'm gonna say remove the styles, click OK and remember another little shortcut from earlier. What do I hold down on my keyboard. So this generates lots of pages. Hold down, shift. I get the little curly arrow icon if I click once on the top left here, generates pages for me all the way through and they're all linked. Lovely. First of all, we need to create a paragraph style because you'd never have a character style without a paragraph style. Okay, you kind of use them on top of to add value to a paragraph style. Okay, so we're gonna select all we're going to pick, I'm gonna pick Roboto Medium. Okay, I'm gonna pick 10 point and I'm going to create a paragraph style. So window styles, paragraph styles. We've created a lot of paragraph styles already. Okay, so click on create new style. Double click where it says paragraph style one. We're going to call out body copy. Cool, so we've got a paragraph style. Now we want a character styles and the reason we have a character style is that we can add a little bit of extra nous to our paragraph style. I could let's say I want to do this first paragraph here and I want to go through and make it bold and a color. So I want to go through and make it bold and I want to make it the pink color. Okay, so that could be my first paragraph style. I could create another paragraph style but then I've got two styles doing a lot of the same work. The only thing different about this is the color and the boldness. So what I want to do is I'm going to undo that. Okay, I'm gonna have nothing selected. I'm going to create a character style. That does one thing. Okay, so I've got nothing selected. New paragraph style click on this one. He's going to be first para. And what I'm gonna do is under basic formats. I'm going to say whatever font it is make it bold and the character color now is going to be switched out for the pink click. Ok. That character style does nothing. But those two things. You double click on it and you see I'm bold and I'm pink. The good thing about it is if I apply it to my paragraph style, body copy so on top of it, I'm going to add first paragraph. Okay, Where it becomes quite useful, especially over longer documents. Is that if I go and adjust paragraph styles now. So I've got nothing selected double click body copy. Basic character formats. We've gone actually, we're not using Roboto anymore. We're going to be using aerial boo. But that's OK. We'll click on. Ok. And you'll notice that it changed from Roboto to aerial including everything that was underneath this character style because that character style said, remember just did two things be bold be pink. So it doesn't really care what font it is. Let's go and change it again. Something a bit more crazy. Let's go. Let's go mad. Okay, Comic sans the font we love to hate. Okay, but it's bold and pink. Let's undo that quick. So bad says the reason for a character style quite simple. You might already know about them, but we need to know this to carry on with lots of other styles that we're going to create, like nested and grip, so let's get on with those now.
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