Text and Object Styles in InDesign

Defining Text Styles

InDesign has two types of text styles.

Paragraph styles apply formatting for both character and
paragraph attributes.
Character styles apply formatting for only character
attributes.
Defining Text Styles
To Set the Basic Paragraph Attributes

Click inside a text frame, highlight type, and use the

Control palette, Character palette, or Paragraph palette to
change the text attributes.
To Set the Basic Paragraph Attributes

This can change your font, size of text, alignment, tab

options, underlining, etc…
More than one style can be set up.
The Basic Paragraph style can be modified but not deleted.
 New Paragraph Styles

Many paragraph styles can be made and deleted.

These settings can be found in the Paragraph Styles
palette under the arrow.