From the course: InDesign: Typography Part 2
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Paragraph rules and shaded paragraphs - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Typography Part 2
Paragraph rules and shaded paragraphs
- [Voiceover] Paragraph Rules are great for differentiating blocks of information, especially in calendar listings. The rules can be incorporated into a paragraph style and they are associated with the text faithfully following it wherever it goes. So let's just take a look at what we have here. First of all, let's take a look at the Paragraph Rule definition. I'll come to the Paragraph Style, right click on the Paragraph Style name to edit it, and then to Paragraph Rules. This is a Rule Above and is set to the width of the column but we also have the option of setting it to the width of the text. Let's see how we can recreate this. I'll click into this text. This technique tends to work best when the text is in all uppercase because then the words look optically centered within the bar. So I'm gonna press Command-Shift-K or Control-Shift-K to make the text uppercase. Since it's uppercase, I'll also add a little bit of positive tracking to it as well. Then I'm going to bring up the…
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Efficient and consistent formatting3m 35s
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Creating, applying, and editing6m 54s
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Parent and child styles6m 45s
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Nested styles and line styles8m 46s
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Using a grep style5m 4s
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Paragraph rules and shaded paragraphs7m 39s
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