Hi there. In this video,
we're going to look at adjusting our paragraph styles,
doing things like clearing and redefining styles,
and it'll all make sense in this video.
Let's go and do it now.
The first one and the one I use the most is redefining.
You go into here and actually,
I want to highlight this, but Roboto Bold.
Actually, I want to start using a Roboto Slab,
so Roboto, and Slab.
I'm going to use Roboto Slab Bold,
click on him, so it adjusted it.
Now, what happens is, can you see here?
It's still my subheading.
But see this little plus thing here?
It means that if I highlight this, no plus.
If I highlight this one, it means that it's pretty much the subheading,
but there are some additions you've done to it.
Often, all you need to do is hover above it and can you see?
I can't really point at it but you can see this as Roboto Slab has been adjusted.
It actually tells you what's been adjusted and you can decide like, "Actually,
I was going to leave it like that," or in my case,
I'm like, "I like it and I want it to apply it to all the styles."
I want to do something called redefine style.
What I can do is with it selected, I right-click it,
and I say "Redefine Style" based on the selection I have now,
and you'll notice that that updated,
that updated all for me.
As you're working, you make small adjustments.
You like this but you want to change it maybe two,
maybe 9.5 because it just not fitting,
and then you can right-click this and say Redefine Style,
and you can see all of it came along for the ride.
I'm going to undo that. Another way
of doing that same thing is if you have nothing selected.
If I double-click, say my first paragraph here,
I can go in and say,
I want to turn Preview on just so I can see it while I'm working,
go to Basic Character Formats.
There's lots you can do in a paragraph style we're going to be
working with and you will mainly use basic character formats.
You can see in here Roboto Slab, yes, that's perfect,
but what I would like to do is I'd like it to be bold.
You can see it's being bold up there.
Let's click "OK," so that's a different way of adjusting it.
You either redefine by changing it,
highlighting it, right-clicking it,
redefining it or have nothing selected,
double-click it, and then go and make your adjustments.
It doesn't really matter.
That's bugging me, hyphen.
Grab a tag tool, paragraph, hyphen gone.
Nice. Now, the last thing we'll look at is something called clearing overrides,
and that just means that say,
I've made this and I'm playing around with the tracking,
which is the space between letters.
Say, I'm going to make it really big.
Let's say that it's adjusted, so you can see here,
it's this but there's a little plus and it says, okay,
it's the same except you can see in brackets there,
the tracking is at 320.
There is a mistake. I'm like, "That's not meant to be like that.
Why is that got a plus?"
What I can do is I can right-click or
just use this button down here that says Clear Overrides,
and all it does is get rid of the things that
aren't part of the original paragraph style.
Cool. Let's say now that we've got this lock
down and we'd like this and we're going to use it throughout
this long document and other documents for this company that we're doing work for.
What we want to do is add it to our CC library.
Make sure we've got the Great at Heart Library selected up here,
and you got two ways I can have this selected.
Click the little plus button like we did earlier and I can say I would like,
I don't want Text Fill Color, it's already in there,
but I want the paragraph style, and I can click "Add".
There's my Great at Heart subheading or you can do this.
I'm going to select all of these guys.
They're on the spacing paragraph,
that's nothing, and I'm going to click this little icon here.
They will go across.
Now the cool thing about that, remember,
is that it doesn't matter what document I have opened now,
all of these guys will come along for the ride.
Unfortunately, I had something selected at the same time,
so it's applied, body copy to it back to subheading.
But at least we're getting the hang of these paragraph styles, aren't we?
They're super useful and you're going to get documents that
have them already and you need to know how to adjust them and use them,
especially when you're working on longer documents.
If though, you are a designer who works on really small flyers, postcards,
little social media posts,
then you're probably not going to use paragraph styles like you should.
But when the text is so small and you're doing
so many custom stuff, everything's different,
then there might not be any reason to use paragraph styles,
but as soon as you get into more than one page or consistent monthly newsletters,
then paragraph styles are the way forward.