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In this video, we're going to look at why paragraph styles are

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essential for InDesign and are super awesome and time-saving.

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It means that I can do stuff like this,

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highlight this and go boom on the heading.

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Go to this next line and see,

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if I can click it, go boom on first paragraph construction.

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I'm going to stop saying boom but you get the idea.

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All of this is going to be body copy.

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You can see with styles,

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life is good and quick and easy.

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To create a paragraph style.

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We're going to select the thing we want to turn into a style.

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In our case I want to do something slightly different.

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I want to make roboto,

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I want to make it the bold version.

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I'm going to make it all caps.

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There's this little capital Ts here to make it caps.

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I'm going to make it the color of our ridge.

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You can see the underlying change with it because we

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did that in the previous video, awesome.

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Do I like these columns now?

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I don't. I'm going to remove them.

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Anyway, we've done that and that's going to be my subheading for all my columns.

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I'd like to turn this into a style,

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we do that by going up to window and we go down to styles,

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we're going to do a paragraph styles.

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There's lots of styles.

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This is the one you're going to use the most, paragraph styles.

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I'm going to move this over here.

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You're given one by default,

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just like if you've used Word, it's normal.

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Just the basic one.

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What we want to do is with this selected,

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click on this little tuned up page here to create a new style.

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Double-click the weird paragraph style one.

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It's given a name, I'm going to call this one Green At Heart.

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I keep adding these acronyms because I work on multiple clients and I want to know,

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because if I just call it body copy or subheading,

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you can copy and paste styles from

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one document to another and you can just have two subheadings and you're like,

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hmm, you don't know what client it's for.

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There's my subheading and you can see what it's pulling through,

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it's pulling through all the stuff that make this.

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Those might be longer or shorter depending on what changes you've made.

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Mine's roboto, it's bold,

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it's 10 point, all of these things are getting captured.

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One thing to do whenever you're making

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a paragraph style is just to make sure it's not Based On.

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If it says Based On and it has anything other than No Paragraph Style.

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It'll just run into complications later on.

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I like to keep them all separate,

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especially when you're new,

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makes everything super rock-solid and understandable.

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When you stop basing it on other paragraph styles,

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you delete one and a bit of a chain reaction happens.

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But just so you know,

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always keep an eye out on Based On and make sure it says No Paragraph Style.

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Let's click OK. Nothing really has happened.

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It just captured the style that we can reuse and that's what we're going to do.

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We're going to select this and we're going to go, how good is that?

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I'm going to remove my column because I don't like it.

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But it's a really quick way of sharing that around,

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and the next thing is,

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I'm going to delete my colon.

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We're going to set some other paragraph styles.

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Now, I've got this stuff here.

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I would like to, I'm going to select all of this,

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and this is going to be my body copy.

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I should have probably done this first when I could select it all.

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But I'm going to have to select this button,

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apply it to the two other parts here.

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You probably start with your body copy because it's easier to select it there.

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It's easier to select it then but let's go and do it.

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I've got it selected, it's based on the old basic one.

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We're going to make a new one, we're going to double-click it.

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We're going to call this one Green At Heart body copy.

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I'm just going to make sure it doesn't say Based On anything else,

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click OK. That's pulled through my 10 point.

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It's got my space after.

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I know nothing's changing but what we need to

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do is make sure this is applied to all of them.

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Highlight this one, make sure it is my GG Body Copy,

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sorry, my GaH Body Copy.

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Select all of this, do the same thing.

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Make sure it's the body copy.

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Why did we have to do it?

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Let's say I didn't, I undo that,

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so I forgot to apply it to this.

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Later on we go and make a change to that paragraph style.

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Let's have nothing selected,

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double-click body copy and in here I want to go to

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basic character formats and let's say the client's not using roboto anymore,

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they want to go back to Arial,

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we click OK. Arial is not a good enough change.

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Let's go and change it from Arial and make it bold.

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You can see they've all changed because they were all linked to this body copy.

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This one didn't, because we didn't apply it before.

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I'm going to go undo back to when life was good and

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make sure you are all part of the body copy gang.

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Before we go, we're going to go and make a couple of other ones so apply this one,

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select this one here and I'm going to click this,

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I'm going to click this and this is going to be called My Green At Heart.

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Now, there is a special name for this type of pull-out,

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pull quote E-type thing.

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But I can't remember off the top my head.

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Let's call this one first paragraph.

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Make sure it's not based on anything.

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Click OK. We'll also do it.

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Notice that I accidentally only selected one line.

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No I got it all, so first paragraph, great,

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looking over there and I'll do the same thing for this heading here.

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This one, you call this one heading.

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Green At Heart heading.

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Based On, No Paragraph Style,

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click OK. Where this becomes even better is when you start working on other pages.

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I'm going to bring in some text on page 5 here.

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I'm going to bring in Article 2, I'm going to make sure it's remove all styles, great.

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I'm going to drag out a nice big box for it to go in from

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this side to this behind, get in there.

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I'm going to select it all and I'll put it in my body copy first,

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you can see how quick and nice and easy that is.

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There's this bit here,

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which is, that was my, what is called?

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First paragraph. Great, there is my subheadings.

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You can see now we're cooking,

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and this is what makes InDesign and paragraph styles super

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useful for any daily user of InDesign, lovely.

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Let's go and leave this here now and in the next video we'll look

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at updating and redefining styles after you've made them,

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we'll cut that into its own little video. I'll see you over there.