WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:0 00:00:06.890 --> 00:00:10.980 In this video, we're going to look at why paragraph styles are 00:00:10.980 --> 00:00:14.775 essential for InDesign and are super awesome and time-saving. 00:00:14.775 --> 00:00:16.545 It means that I can do stuff like this, 00:00:16.545 --> 00:00:19.815 highlight this and go boom on the heading. 00:00:19.815 --> 00:00:21.870 Go to this next line and see, 00:00:21.870 --> 00:00:26.240 if I can click it, go boom on first paragraph construction. 00:00:26.240 --> 00:00:29.690 I'm going to stop saying boom but you get the idea. 00:00:29.690 --> 00:00:32.090 All of this is going to be body copy. 00:00:32.090 --> 00:00:33.290 You can see with styles, 00:00:33.290 --> 00:00:36.865 life is good and quick and easy. 00:00:36.865 --> 00:00:39.330 To create a paragraph style. 00:00:39.330 --> 00:00:42.200 We're going to select the thing we want to turn into a style. 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:44.300 In our case I want to do something slightly different. 00:00:44.300 --> 00:00:45.470 I want to make roboto, 00:00:45.470 --> 00:00:47.315 I want to make it the bold version. 00:00:47.315 --> 00:00:48.905 I'm going to make it all caps. 00:00:48.905 --> 00:00:51.635 There's this little capital Ts here to make it caps. 00:00:51.635 --> 00:00:54.525 I'm going to make it the color of our ridge. 00:00:54.525 --> 00:00:56.690 You can see the underlying change with it because we 00:00:56.690 --> 00:00:58.700 did that in the previous video, awesome. 00:00:58.700 --> 00:01:00.335 Do I like these columns now? 00:01:00.335 --> 00:01:02.030 I don't. I'm going to remove them. 00:01:02.030 --> 00:01:07.380 Anyway, we've done that and that's going to be my subheading for all my columns. 00:01:07.380 --> 00:01:09.165 I'd like to turn this into a style, 00:01:09.165 --> 00:01:12.215 we do that by going up to window and we go down to styles, 00:01:12.215 --> 00:01:13.910 we're going to do a paragraph styles. 00:01:13.910 --> 00:01:15.020 There's lots of styles. 00:01:15.020 --> 00:01:18.070 This is the one you're going to use the most, paragraph styles. 00:01:18.070 --> 00:01:19.985 I'm going to move this over here. 00:01:19.985 --> 00:01:21.580 You're given one by default, 00:01:21.580 --> 00:01:24.470 just like if you've used Word, it's normal. 00:01:24.470 --> 00:01:25.850 Just the basic one. 00:01:25.850 --> 00:01:28.010 What we want to do is with this selected, 00:01:28.010 --> 00:01:31.400 click on this little tuned up page here to create a new style. 00:01:31.400 --> 00:01:33.760 Double-click the weird paragraph style one. 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:37.035 It's given a name, I'm going to call this one Green At Heart. 00:01:37.035 --> 00:01:41.000 I keep adding these acronyms because I work on multiple clients and I want to know, 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:44.370 because if I just call it body copy or subheading, 00:01:44.690 --> 00:01:47.950 you can copy and paste styles from 00:01:47.950 --> 00:01:51.280 one document to another and you can just have two subheadings and you're like, 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:53.530 hmm, you don't know what client it's for. 00:01:53.530 --> 00:01:56.410 There's my subheading and you can see what it's pulling through, 00:01:56.410 --> 00:01:58.060 it's pulling through all the stuff that make this. 00:01:58.060 --> 00:02:02.185 Those might be longer or shorter depending on what changes you've made. 00:02:02.185 --> 00:02:03.580 Mine's roboto, it's bold, 00:02:03.580 --> 00:02:06.085 it's 10 point, all of these things are getting captured. 00:02:06.085 --> 00:02:07.840 One thing to do whenever you're making 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:10.900 a paragraph style is just to make sure it's not Based On. 00:02:10.900 --> 00:02:16.255 If it says Based On and it has anything other than No Paragraph Style. 00:02:16.255 --> 00:02:18.780 It'll just run into complications later on. 00:02:18.780 --> 00:02:20.650 I like to keep them all separate, 00:02:20.650 --> 00:02:21.685 especially when you're new, 00:02:21.685 --> 00:02:24.610 makes everything super rock-solid and understandable. 00:02:24.610 --> 00:02:27.435 When you stop basing it on other paragraph styles, 00:02:27.435 --> 00:02:30.170 you delete one and a bit of a chain reaction happens. 00:02:30.170 --> 00:02:31.235 But just so you know, 00:02:31.235 --> 00:02:35.180 always keep an eye out on Based On and make sure it says No Paragraph Style. 00:02:35.180 --> 00:02:38.670 Let's click OK. Nothing really has happened. 00:02:38.670 --> 00:02:41.840 It just captured the style that we can reuse and that's what we're going to do. 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:45.815 We're going to select this and we're going to go, how good is that? 00:02:45.815 --> 00:02:47.840 I'm going to remove my column because I don't like it. 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:51.115 But it's a really quick way of sharing that around, 00:02:51.115 --> 00:02:52.260 and the next thing is, 00:02:52.260 --> 00:02:53.625 I'm going to delete my colon. 00:02:53.625 --> 00:02:55.940 We're going to set some other paragraph styles. 00:02:55.940 --> 00:02:58.145 Now, I've got this stuff here. 00:02:58.145 --> 00:03:00.770 I would like to, I'm going to select all of this, 00:03:00.770 --> 00:03:02.570 and this is going to be my body copy. 00:03:02.570 --> 00:03:05.675 I should have probably done this first when I could select it all. 00:03:05.675 --> 00:03:07.160 But I'm going to have to select this button, 00:03:07.160 --> 00:03:08.460 apply it to the two other parts here. 00:03:08.460 --> 00:03:12.740 You probably start with your body copy because it's easier to select it there. 00:03:12.740 --> 00:03:15.450 It's easier to select it then but let's go and do it. 00:03:15.450 --> 00:03:18.585 I've got it selected, it's based on the old basic one. 00:03:18.585 --> 00:03:20.610 We're going to make a new one, we're going to double-click it. 00:03:20.610 --> 00:03:24.180 We're going to call this one Green At Heart body copy. 00:03:24.180 --> 00:03:27.480 I'm just going to make sure it doesn't say Based On anything else, 00:03:27.480 --> 00:03:31.020 click OK. That's pulled through my 10 point. 00:03:31.020 --> 00:03:32.775 It's got my space after. 00:03:32.775 --> 00:03:35.330 I know nothing's changing but what we need to 00:03:35.330 --> 00:03:38.140 do is make sure this is applied to all of them. 00:03:38.140 --> 00:03:41.850 Highlight this one, make sure it is my GG Body Copy, 00:03:41.850 --> 00:03:44.370 sorry, my GaH Body Copy. 00:03:44.370 --> 00:03:46.650 Select all of this, do the same thing. 00:03:46.650 --> 00:03:48.105 Make sure it's the body copy. 00:03:48.105 --> 00:03:49.560 Why did we have to do it? 00:03:49.560 --> 00:03:51.185 Let's say I didn't, I undo that, 00:03:51.185 --> 00:03:53.060 so I forgot to apply it to this. 00:03:53.060 --> 00:03:56.210 Later on we go and make a change to that paragraph style. 00:03:56.210 --> 00:03:58.325 Let's have nothing selected, 00:03:58.325 --> 00:04:01.400 double-click body copy and in here I want to go to 00:04:01.400 --> 00:04:04.970 basic character formats and let's say the client's not using roboto anymore, 00:04:04.970 --> 00:04:07.070 they want to go back to Arial, 00:04:07.070 --> 00:04:11.000 we click OK. Arial is not a good enough change. 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:15.400 Let's go and change it from Arial and make it bold. 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:19.940 You can see they've all changed because they were all linked to this body copy. 00:04:19.940 --> 00:04:23.140 This one didn't, because we didn't apply it before. 00:04:23.140 --> 00:04:25.790 I'm going to go undo back to when life was good and 00:04:25.790 --> 00:04:28.780 make sure you are all part of the body copy gang. 00:04:28.780 --> 00:04:32.360 Before we go, we're going to go and make a couple of other ones so apply this one, 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:35.255 select this one here and I'm going to click this, 00:04:35.255 --> 00:04:38.950 I'm going to click this and this is going to be called My Green At Heart. 00:04:38.950 --> 00:04:42.965 Now, there is a special name for this type of pull-out, 00:04:42.965 --> 00:04:44.160 pull quote E-type thing. 00:04:44.160 --> 00:04:46.085 But I can't remember off the top my head. 00:04:46.085 --> 00:04:50.670 Let's call this one first paragraph. 00:04:53.150 --> 00:04:55.535 Make sure it's not based on anything. 00:04:55.535 --> 00:04:57.705 Click OK. We'll also do it. 00:04:57.705 --> 00:05:00.390 Notice that I accidentally only selected one line. 00:05:00.390 --> 00:05:02.850 No I got it all, so first paragraph, great, 00:05:02.850 --> 00:05:06.315 looking over there and I'll do the same thing for this heading here. 00:05:06.315 --> 00:05:11.200 This one, you call this one heading. 00:05:11.720 --> 00:05:14.250 Green At Heart heading. 00:05:14.250 --> 00:05:16.005 Based On, No Paragraph Style, 00:05:16.005 --> 00:05:21.620 click OK. Where this becomes even better is when you start working on other pages. 00:05:21.620 --> 00:05:24.350 I'm going to bring in some text on page 5 here. 00:05:24.350 --> 00:05:28.110 I'm going to bring in Article 2, I'm going to make sure it's remove all styles, great. 00:05:28.110 --> 00:05:30.440 I'm going to drag out a nice big box for it to go in from 00:05:30.440 --> 00:05:33.410 this side to this behind, get in there. 00:05:33.410 --> 00:05:37.930 I'm going to select it all and I'll put it in my body copy first, 00:05:37.930 --> 00:05:40.700 you can see how quick and nice and easy that is. 00:05:40.700 --> 00:05:41.990 There's this bit here, 00:05:41.990 --> 00:05:44.450 which is, that was my, what is called? 00:05:44.450 --> 00:05:48.290 First paragraph. Great, there is my subheadings. 00:05:48.290 --> 00:05:50.225 You can see now we're cooking, 00:05:50.225 --> 00:05:53.300 and this is what makes InDesign and paragraph styles super 00:05:53.300 --> 00:05:56.940 useful for any daily user of InDesign, lovely. 00:05:56.940 --> 00:06:00.050 Let's go and leave this here now and in the next video we'll look 00:06:00.050 --> 00:06:03.650 at updating and redefining styles after you've made them, 00:06:03.650 --> 00:06:07.650 we'll cut that into its own little video. I'll see you over there.