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Adobe InDesign CS5 - Illustrated Unit B: Working with Text

Adobe InDesign CS5 - Illustrated Unit B: Working with Text. Objectives. Upon completion of this unit, you should be able to: Create text boxes Place and flow text Format text Format paragraphs Create and apply paragraph styles Modify a paragraph style. Objectives.

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Adobe InDesign CS5 - Illustrated Unit B: Working with Text

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  1. Adobe InDesign CS5 - Illustrated Unit B:Working with Text

  2. Objectives • Upon completion of this unit, you should be able to: • Create text boxes • Place and flow text • Format text • Format paragraphs • Create and apply paragraph styles • Modify a paragraph style

  3. Objectives • Create and apply character styles • Apply bullets to text • Find and change text

  4. Creating Text Boxes • Text boxes • Containers for text • Also referred to as text frames • Amount of text you can fit horizontally in depends on the size of the text box • Text automatically wraps to the next line once it hits the right side of the text box • Created with the Type tool • Drag the Type tool pointer on the page • Text automatically wraps as you type

  5. Creating Text Boxes Figure B-1: Newsletter

  6. Creating Text Boxes Figure B-2: Duplicating the text box

  7. Placing and Flowing Text • Place command • Used to place text from other files into a text box • Click the Type tool • Click inside the text box • Click File on the Application bar • Click Place • Text flows into the text box • Flowing text is also known as threading • When text fills a second text box a link is established between them

  8. Placing and Flowing Text Figure B-3: Text placed in the text box

  9. Placing and Flowing Text Figure B-4: Linked text

  10. Formatting Text • Formatting text • Changing the way that text looks • You can change the typeface, font, size, color and style • Typeface: design created for a set of characters • Includes the alphabet, numbers, and symbols • Font: set of characters based on a typeface using a specific size and style

  11. Formatting Text • Character or Control panel • Used to make changes to text • Select the text to format it • Double-click: selects a word • Triple-click a word: selects a line • Click text four times: selects a paragraph • Click text five times: selects all text in a text box

  12. Formatting Text Figure B-5: Selected text

  13. Formatting Text Figure B-6: Formatted text

  14. Formatting Paragraphs • Paragraphs: • Lines of text separated by the space created when you press [Enter] (Win) or [return] (Mac) • Formatted with the Paragraph panel • Leading: amount of space between the baselines of two lines of type • Alignment: the way a paragraph is horizontally spread out between the left and right sides of a text box • Hidden character: symbol that represents something else (e.g., a space)

  15. Formatting Paragraphs Figure B-7: Hidden characters

  16. Formatting Paragraphs Figure B-8: Center-aligned text

  17. Creating and ApplyingParagraph Styles • Paragraph styles: • Useful when you want to format several paragraphs in a document • Work by lumping paragraph formatting options into one named style • Enable you to control character formatting for paragraph text

  18. Creating and ApplyingParagraph Styles Figure B-9: New Paragraph Style dialog box

  19. Creating and ApplyingParagraph Styles Figure B-10: Applied paragraph style

  20. Modifying a Paragraph Style • Paragraph Styles panel • Used to change paragraph styles • Paragraph Style Options dialog box • Contains formatting choices • Placeholder text • Made up of text that is divided into words of different lengths • Represents how real text will flow in your document

  21. Modifying a Paragraph Style Figure B-11: Paragraph Style Options dialog box

  22. Creating and Applying Paragraph Styles • Character styles • Work very much like paragraph styles • Except they are created just for characters • Perfect for short pieces of text (e.g., headings, labels, or titles) • Character Styles panel • Used to set or modify an existing character style

  23. Creating and Applying Paragraph Styles Figure B-13: New Character Style dialog box

  24. Creating and Applying Paragraph Styles Figure B-14: Character style applied to text

  25. Applying Bullets to Text • Bullets: • Small symbols that you can insert before the beginning of a paragraph • Used for lists of items • Can be numbers or symbols • Click Type on the Application bar, point to Bullets & Numbered Lists, then click Apply Bullets or Apply Numbers • You can also use the Bullets & Numbering dialog box

  26. Applying Bullets to Text Figure B-15: Add Bullets dialog box

  27. Applying Bullets to Text Figure B-16: Bullets applied to paragraphs

  28. Finding and Changing Text • Find/Change dialog box • Used to find text quickly and change it • Type the text you want to find • Type the text you want to replace it with • Click Find • Click Change • Click Change All • Many options • Whole words • Case Sensitive • Special characters

  29. Finding and Changing Text Figure B-17: Find/Change dialog box

  30. Finding and Changing Text Figure B-18: Finished newsletter

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