Adobe InDesign CS5 - Illustrated

Unit B:Working with Text

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

Objectives

Create and apply character styles Apply bullets to text Find and change text

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

Creating Text Boxes

Figure B-1: Newsletter

Creating Text Boxes

Figure B-2: Duplicating the text box

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

Placing and Flowing Text

Figure B-3: Text placed in the text box

Placing and Flowing Text

Figure B-4: Linked text

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

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

Formatting Text

Figure B-5: Selected text

Formatting Text

Figure B-6: Formatted text

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)

Formatting Paragraphs

Figure B-7: Hidden characters

Formatting Paragraphs

Figure B-8: Center-aligned text

Creating and ApplyingParagraph 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

Creating and ApplyingParagraph Styles

Figure B-9: New Paragraph Style dialog box

Creating and ApplyingParagraph Styles

Figure B-10: Applied paragraph style

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

Modifying a Paragraph Style

Figure B-11: Paragraph Style Options dialog box

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

Creating and Applying Paragraph Styles

Figure B-13: New Character Style dialog box

Creating and Applying Paragraph Styles

Figure B-14: Character style applied to text

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

Applying Bullets to Text

Figure B-15: Add Bullets dialog box

Applying Bullets to Text

Figure B-16: Bullets applied to paragraphs

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

Finding and Changing Text

Figure B-17: Find/Change dialog box

Finding and Changing Text

Figure B-18: Finished newsletter