In this video, we're going to look at why paragraph styles are
essential for InDesign and are super awesome and time-saving.
It means that I can do stuff like this,
highlight this and go boom on the heading.
Go to this next line and see,
if I can click it, go boom on first paragraph construction.
I'm going to stop saying boom but you get the idea.
All of this is going to be body copy.
You can see with styles,
life is good and quick and easy.
To create a paragraph style.
We're going to select the thing we want to turn into a style.
In our case I want to do something slightly different.
I want to make roboto,
I want to make it the bold version.
I'm going to make it all caps.
There's this little capital Ts here to make it caps.
I'm going to make it the color of our ridge.
You can see the underlying change with it because we
did that in the previous video, awesome.
Do I like these columns now?
I don't. I'm going to remove them.
Anyway, we've done that and that's going to be my subheading for all my columns.
I'd like to turn this into a style,
we do that by going up to window and we go down to styles,
we're going to do a paragraph styles.
There's lots of styles.
This is the one you're going to use the most, paragraph styles.
I'm going to move this over here.
You're given one by default,
just like if you've used Word, it's normal.
Just the basic one.
What we want to do is with this selected,
click on this little tuned up page here to create a new style.
Double-click the weird paragraph style one.
It's given a name, I'm going to call this one Green At Heart.
I keep adding these acronyms because I work on multiple clients and I want to know,
because if I just call it body copy or subheading,
you can copy and paste styles from
one document to another and you can just have two subheadings and you're like,
hmm, you don't know what client it's for.
There's my subheading and you can see what it's pulling through,
it's pulling through all the stuff that make this.
Those might be longer or shorter depending on what changes you've made.
Mine's roboto, it's bold,
it's 10 point, all of these things are getting captured.
One thing to do whenever you're making
a paragraph style is just to make sure it's not Based On.
If it says Based On and it has anything other than No Paragraph Style.
It'll just run into complications later on.
I like to keep them all separate,
especially when you're new,
makes everything super rock-solid and understandable.
When you stop basing it on other paragraph styles,
you delete one and a bit of a chain reaction happens.
But just so you know,
always keep an eye out on Based On and make sure it says No Paragraph Style.
Let's click OK. Nothing really has happened.
It just captured the style that we can reuse and that's what we're going to do.
We're going to select this and we're going to go, how good is that?
I'm going to remove my column because I don't like it.
But it's a really quick way of sharing that around,
and the next thing is,
I'm going to delete my colon.
We're going to set some other paragraph styles.
Now, I've got this stuff here.
I would like to, I'm going to select all of this,
and this is going to be my body copy.
I should have probably done this first when I could select it all.
But I'm going to have to select this button,
apply it to the two other parts here.
You probably start with your body copy because it's easier to select it there.
It's easier to select it then but let's go and do it.
I've got it selected, it's based on the old basic one.
We're going to make a new one, we're going to double-click it.
We're going to call this one Green At Heart body copy.
I'm just going to make sure it doesn't say Based On anything else,
click OK. That's pulled through my 10 point.
It's got my space after.
I know nothing's changing but what we need to
do is make sure this is applied to all of them.
Highlight this one, make sure it is my GG Body Copy,
sorry, my GaH Body Copy.
Select all of this, do the same thing.
Make sure it's the body copy.
Why did we have to do it?
Let's say I didn't, I undo that,
so I forgot to apply it to this.
Later on we go and make a change to that paragraph style.
Let's have nothing selected,
double-click body copy and in here I want to go to
basic character formats and let's say the client's not using roboto anymore,
they want to go back to Arial,
we click OK. Arial is not a good enough change.
Let's go and change it from Arial and make it bold.
You can see they've all changed because they were all linked to this body copy.
This one didn't, because we didn't apply it before.
I'm going to go undo back to when life was good and
make sure you are all part of the body copy gang.
Before we go, we're going to go and make a couple of other ones so apply this one,
select this one here and I'm going to click this,
I'm going to click this and this is going to be called My Green At Heart.
Now, there is a special name for this type of pull-out,
pull quote E-type thing.
But I can't remember off the top my head.
Let's call this one first paragraph.
Make sure it's not based on anything.
Click OK. We'll also do it.
Notice that I accidentally only selected one line.
No I got it all, so first paragraph, great,
looking over there and I'll do the same thing for this heading here.
This one, you call this one heading.
Green At Heart heading.
Based On, No Paragraph Style,
click OK. Where this becomes even better is when you start working on other pages.
I'm going to bring in some text on page 5 here.
I'm going to bring in Article 2, I'm going to make sure it's remove all styles, great.
I'm going to drag out a nice big box for it to go in from
this side to this behind, get in there.
I'm going to select it all and I'll put it in my body copy first,
you can see how quick and nice and easy that is.
There's this bit here,
which is, that was my, what is called?
First paragraph. Great, there is my subheadings.
You can see now we're cooking,
and this is what makes InDesign and paragraph styles super
useful for any daily user of InDesign, lovely.
Let's go and leave this here now and in the next video we'll look
at updating and redefining styles after you've made them,
we'll cut that into its own little video. I'll see you over there.