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Applying basic text formatting

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Applying basic text formatting

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- [Instructor] We've seen how you can use the type tool to get text into InDesign and edit it. Now I want to talk about text formatting. I have the magazine file open from my exercise files folder and I'm going to double click this frame over here on the right to place my text cursor inside the paragraph. Then I'll zoom in and center that at 400% by pressing command four on the Mac or control four on Windows. Now I'll go ahead and select a little bit of this text. Now I want to make sure the control panel is set to character formatting, so over here on the left side of the control panel I'll press this little A button. Now the first field in the control panel is the font menu. I can click on this pop up menu and choose any font I want. You'll see that as soon as I hover over a font it previews the font on the page. I can also click this little twirly triangle to the left of the font to see the font styles inside this…

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