© 2010 delmar, cengage learning chapter 2 working with text

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Chapter 2

Working with Text

Chapter Objectives

• Format text• Format paragraphs• Create and apply styles• Edit text

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Format Text

• Character panel– Use the Character panel to format text– Works hand in hand with Paragraph panel


Format Text

Use the Character panel to:• Modify leading• Track and kern text• Apply horizontal or vertical scale• Perform baseline shift• Skew text


Format Text

• Leading is the vertical space between lines of text– measured from the baseline of one line of text

to the next• Baseline – the imaginary line on which text sits


Font size

Font style

Font

Format Text

Kerning

Baseline shift

Leading

Kerning


Format Text

• Kerning means to increase or decrease the space between a pair of characters.

• Tracking is like kerning but it is applied to an entire word, sentence or paragraph


Format Text

• Superscript character- A superscript character is a small character that is positioned to the upper-right of a word.

• A footnote is a superscript• Subscript character – opposite of superscript,

the character rests below the word


Format Text

• Superscript and subscript characters are commands found on the Character panel menu.

• Another command on the Character panel menu is Underline – good for creating lines under text.– Line width is determined by point size of text


Format Text

Example of a superscript


Format Paragraphs

• The Paragraph panel is the command center for modifying paragraphs or blocks of text also known as body copy.

• The Paragraph panel controls text alignment, indents, space before and after paragraphs and drop shadows.


Format Paragraphs

• A drop cap is a design element in which the first letter or letters of a paragraph are increased in size to create a visual effect.

• A pull quote is a paragraph in which both the left and right indents are larger than the other paragraphs in the same document.


Format Paragraphs

• Widows and orphans are words or single lines of text that become separated from the other lines in a paragraph. Orphans are left alone at the bottom of a page and widows at the top.

• Use the Paragraph panel commands to control the appearance of widows and orphans.


Format Paragraphs

Paragraph panel list arrow

Alignment buttons

Left Indent

First Line Left Indent

Space Before text box

Drop Cap Number of Linestext box

Right IndentAlign to Baseline Grid

Space After text box

Drop Cap One or MoreCharacters text box


Format Paragraphs

• A paragraph return, also called a hard return, is inserted into the text formatting by pressing [Enter] (Win) or [return] (Mac).

• A soft return moves words down to the next baseline but does not create a new paragraph.– Create a soft return by pressing and holding [Shift]

while pressing [Enter] (Win) or [return] (Mac)


Create and Apply Styles

• A style is a group of formatting attributes, such as font, font size, color, and tracking, that is applied to text—whenever and wherever you want it to appear.

• Using styles saves you time, and keeps a consistent look among text in a document.



• You use the Character Styles panel to create styles for individual words or characters, such as a footnote.

• You use the Paragraph Styles panel to apply a style to a paragraph. Paragraph styles include formatting options such as indents and drop caps.



• To create a style, format text or a paragraph, select it, click the Character Styles or Paragraph Styles list arrow, then click New Character Style or New Paragraph Style.

• Name the style and then click OK.



• You can make additional formatting choices or changes to your style in the New Character Style dialog box or the New Paragraph Style dialog box.



QUICKTIP

You can easily import character and paragraph styles from other InDesign documents. Click the Character Styles or Paragraph Styles panel list arrow, then click Load Character Styles or Load Paragraph Styles. You’ll be prompted to navigate to the documents that have the styles you wish to import.



Two stylesThree styles

Character Styles panel Paragraph Styles panel



QUICKTIPGlyphs are type characters that you won’t find on your keyboard—characters such as trademark and registration mark signs, arrows, cent signs, boxes, and so forth. InDesign makes it easy to find and use glyphs. Click Type on the Application bar, then click Glyphs to display the Glyphs panel. Click the document window with the Type tool, then double-click the glyph on the Glyphs panel that you wish to insert.


Edit Text

• Use the Find/Change command to find text in a document and change it to something else.– for example, you could find every instance of

Mary and change it to Maria• The Find/Change dialog box is a very powerful

editing tool.


Edit Text

Type what you want to find

Type what you want to change it to


Edit Text

• Check Spelling– Use the Spell checker to find misspelled

words in a document.


Edit Text

• The spell checker identifies words that it doesn’t find in its dictionary, offers you a list of suggested corrections, and asks you what you want to do.


Edit Text

Misspelled word

Suggestions


Edit Text

• You can add commonly used words to the User Dictionary by clicking the Add button.

• Words, such as names, added to the User Dictionary will no longer be flagged as misspelled words.


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Documents

text slide

styles character

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character styles panel

format text character

load paragraph styles

text formatting

size of text