#Indesign text styles how to#

So if I changed the alignment in a paragraph, I'm not changing just one line. So things that are common to a paragraph. Things like alignment, how much space before and after, we've got left and right margins, drop caps, things like that. There's going to be a lot of things in common, things that we're going to set in the paragraph panel. So when I create a paragraph of text, basically I want the paragraph to look pretty cohesive. This foundation, and that's what your paragraph styles are. You've got this skeleton, this base, and again.

And that's kind of standard no matter what kind of building it is and what kind of materials you're using. When you build a house or a building, anybody that's seen any construction knows that there's this foundation at the bottom and then there's some framing.

#Indesign text styles how to#

Now, I don't know how to actually build a house, but I've seen them built and I kind of get an idea of how it works. And I always liken it to building a house. And I'm going to start first with sort of an analogy to kind of figure out why we have paragraph styles and character styles. I want to make sure I have that ready to go. And we're going to move the character style one, too. And I'm actually going to open up just my paragraph style panel right now, and I'm actually going to rip this off and float it up above. I want to make sure I have my object styles handy and ready. So I'm just actually going to arrange a couple of things. Introduction to Paragraph & Character Styles