Dave Cross shows us how to take advantage of InDesign’s paragraph rules by creating and applying new styles to your text.
Author: Dave Cross
For close to 25 years, Dave Cross has been helping photographers and creative professionals get the most out of their software. Starting with Adobe Illustrator classes in 1987, Dave has taught Photoshop,Illustrator and InDesign to thousands of users around the world. He has a Bachelor of Education, is an Adobe Certified Instructor in Photoshop CS5 and is a Certified Technical Trainer. Dave has taught at Photoshop World (20 times), written numerous articles and several books, co-hosts Photoshop User TV and has appeared in many DVDs and online courses for Kelby Training. Dave is the Lead Instructor for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, and runs his own studio/workshop space in Tampa, FL. Over the last 12 years, Dave has taught Photoshop in every state in the United States, throughout Canada and in Europe, consistently earning rave reviews. Dave is well-known for his engaging style, his humor and his ability to make complex topics easy to understand. In 2009 Dave was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame.
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Thank, this is verry helpful, i dont know the a rule can do this in a paragraph
THis is a very handy technique. I discovered this on my own a couple of years ago and have been using it regularly when designing forms etc.
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Dave, you’re a great teacher. Even though you go through things quickly your explanation is very easy to “get.” I’m new at InDesign and it’s refreshing to listen to someone who knows how to explain it to newbies. Looking forward to watching other tutorials.
One more trick to add to that.
Say if you were to insert a text and wanted it to apply automatically without manually putting in the paragraph styles.
Make a New Object style
Go the Paragraph Style on the left hand menu.
For Paragraph Style use the style “Shade”
And then CHECK THE BOX that says APPLY NEXT STYLE.
Automatically does the whole frame of text for you.
Of course you may not only have this list, you may have other information per text frame that you don’t want shaded, etc.
Great tip Dave.
Just one thing… wouldn’t it make sense to set the rule width to be the same as the leading of the text so the coloured shaded “strips” and the white gaps in-between are the same width?