Text formatting precedence – Adobe InCopy CC 2015 User Manual
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Last updated 6/13/2015
• To set the formatting for all future text frames that you’ll create in the current document, make sure that the
insertion point is not active and that nothing is selected, and then specify text formatting options. To set default text
formatting for all new documents, close all documents, and then specify the text settings. See
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• Select a frame to apply formatting to all text inside it. The frame cannot be part of a thread.
• Use paragraph styles and character styles to format text quickly and consistently.
For a video tutorial on working with text, see
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Select the Type tool
.
2
Select the Type tool
or Vertical Type tool
.
3
Click to place an insertion point, or select the text that you want to format.
4
In the Control panel, click the Character Formatting Control icon
or the Paragraph Formatting Control icon
.
A Character formatting controls B Paragraph formatting controls
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In the Control panel, click the Character Formatting Control icon
or the Paragraph Formatting Control icon
.
A Character formatting controls B Paragraph formatting controls
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Choose Type > Paragraph or Type > Character to display the Paragraph or Character panel.
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Specify formatting options.
Text formatting precedence
To format text with attributes such as font style and text direction, you can use several different methods. For example,
you can use the Control panel, frame grid options, or named grids or text styles. If you use more than one method and
attributes conflict with each other, InDesign must choose which attribute to use. The order of precedence is as follows:
1
Character attribute overrides
2
Character style
3
Paragraph attribute overrides
4
Paragraph style
5
CJK grid attributes (either from a named grid or from Frame Grid Options dialog box)
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Application default (root paragraph style)
For example, if you specify one font size in the Frame Grid Options dialog box and a different font size in a character
style, the font size from character style is used. Similarly, if you include both a paragraph style and a named grid in an
object style, the paragraph style takes precedence over the named grid.