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Highlighting paragraphs with boxes - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2023 Essential Training
Highlighting paragraphs with boxes
- [Instructor] You can see these shaded areas that call out some paragraphs around the page. How do we create that kind of paragraph border or shading effect? Well, let's start by using the type tool, and select a couple of these paragraphs down here on the right side of the page. Then I'll zoom in to a hundred percent by pressing command or control 1. Remember, you don't have to select the entire paragraph in order for paragraph formatting to apply to the text. Now, to apply paragraph shading, I want to go up to the control panel while it's in paragraph formatting mode and turn on the shading checkbox. We can also choose a shading color from the little pop-up menu on the right. For example, I'll choose this gray color. But the control panel doesn't give you all the options. So to get all the controls you want, hold down the option or alt key and click on the little icon to the left of that menu. That brings up the…
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Applying advanced character formatting4m 10s
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Using Find Font4m 18s
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Applying formatting to a paragraph3m 44s
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Using drop caps2m 25s
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Adding rules and lines above or below3m 15s
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Setting tabs and tab stops4m 19s
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Spanning and splitting paragraphs3m 32s
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Adding automatic bullets and numbers5m 26s
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Using Find/Change for text formatting4m 23s
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Highlighting paragraphs with boxes4m 4s
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