1. Adobe InDesign CS5 - Illustrated Unit B: Working with Text

2. Objectives Upon completion of this unit, you should be able to:  Create text boxes  Place and flow text  Format text  Format paragraphs  Create and apply paragraph styles  Modify a paragraph style

3. Objectives  Create and apply character styles  Apply bullets to text  Find and change text

4. Creating Text Boxes Text boxes  Containers for text Also referred to as text frames  Amount of text you can fit horizontally in depends on the size of the text box Text automatically wraps to the next line once it hits the right side of the text box  Created with the Type tool Drag the Type tool pointer on the page Text automatically wraps as you type

5. Creating Text Boxes Figure B-1: Newsletter

6. Creating Text Boxes Figure B-2: Duplicating the text box

7. Placing and Flowing Text Place command  Used to place text from other files into a text box Click the Type tool Click inside the text box Click File on the Application bar Click Place Text flows into the text box  Flowing text is also known as threading  When text fills a second text box a link is established between them

8. Placing and Flowing Text Figure B-3: Text placed in the text box

9. Placing and Flowing Text Figure B-4: Linked text

10. Formatting Text Formatting text  Changing the way that text looks You can change the typeface, font, size, color and style  Typeface: design created for a set of characters Includes the alphabet, numbers, and symbols  Font: set of characters based on a typeface using a specific size and style

11. Formatting Text Character or Control panel  Used to make changes to text Select the text to format it  Double-click: selects a word  Triple-click a word: selects a line  Click text four times: selects a paragraph  Click text five times: selects all text in a text box

12. Formatting Text Figure B-5: Selected text

13. Formatting Text Figure B-6: Formatted text

14. Formatting Paragraphs Paragraphs:  Lines of text separated by the space created when you press [Enter] (Win) or [return] (Mac)  Formatted with the Paragraph panel Leading: amount of space between the baselines of two lines of type Alignment: the way a paragraph is horizontally spread out between the left and right sides of a text box Hidden character: symbol that represents something else (e.g., a space)

15. Formatting Paragraphs Figure B-7: Hidden characters

16. Formatting Paragraphs Figure B-8: Center-aligned text

17. Creating and Applying Paragraph Styles Paragraph styles:  Useful when you want to format several paragraphs in a document  Work by lumping paragraph formatting options into one named style  Enable you to control character formatting for paragraph text

18. Creating and Applying Paragraph Styles Figure B-9: New Paragraph Style dialog box

19. Creating and Applying Paragraph Styles Figure B-10: Applied paragraph style

20. Modifying a Paragraph Style Paragraph Styles panel  Used to change paragraph styles  Paragraph Style Options dialog box Contains formatting choices Placeholder text  Made up of text that is divided into words of different lengths  Represents how real text will flow in your document

21. Modifying a Paragraph Style Figure B-11: Paragraph Style Options dialog box

22. Creating and Applying Paragraph Styles Character styles  Work very much like paragraph styles Except they are created just for characters  Perfect for short pieces of text (e.g., headings, labels, or titles) Character Styles panel  Used to set or modify an existing character style

23. Creating and Applying Paragraph Styles Figure B-13: New Character Style dialog box

24. Creating and Applying Paragraph Styles Figure B-14: Character style applied to text

25. Applying Bullets to Text Bullets:  Small symbols that you can insert before the beginning of a paragraph Used for lists of items Can be numbers or symbols  Click Type on the Application bar, point to Bullets & Numbered Lists, then click Apply Bullets or Apply Numbers You can also use the Bullets & Numbering dialog box

26. Applying Bullets to Text Figure B-15: Add Bullets dialog box

27. Applying Bullets to Text Figure B-16: Bullets applied to paragraphs

28. Finding and Changing Text Find/Change dialog box  Used to find text quickly and change it Type the text you want to find Type the text you want to replace it with Click Find Click Change Click Change All  Many options Whole words Case Sensitive Special characters

29. Finding and Changing Text Figure B-17: Find/Change dialog box

30. Finding and Changing Text Figure B-18: Finished newsletter