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Formatting Paragraphs

we're going to switch over to our paragraph formatting controls, which are again on the left hand side of our control bar. Click on the paragraph formatting control options, and this is where we can set our justification within our text container. It's set by default, has left justified. I could do centered. I can do right justified. It's only doing the paragraph that I have selected. Nothing's gonna happen to the areas that I don't have selected. I can also control by in dense so I can control my left in Dent and my right in Dent as well. All of these boxes look similar. They're very much the same. Once you get used to them, just simply hover over the little icons there and is going to tell you left or right in Dent. First line indent last line in dense base before space after drop caps and so on. We're gonna access thes war when we get into paragraph styles. But this is all paragraph form heading so justification with inside the container and whatever paragraph attributes that we wan...

t to add. If I want the first line to be indented at the beginning of every paragraph I could do that as well. Control my margins like that. I can also go in. They can control the space after every paragraph. So it puts little space after After we do this. No more multiple spaces, Multiple returns tab at the beginning of every sentence. No way. Not going to happen. Not even anyplace remotely close. And people like, Well, what happens if I want extra space? We'll show you the return is not the way to do it. The tab key is not a way to get the turkey cursor across the screen. Space bar is not a way to push something across the screen. Okay? Other applications that may be appropriate, completely inappropriate here and in design. We're going to show you the professional way of doing it. This is what's going to happen. So moving down the realm of our paragraph formatting, we also have our bulleted and numbered list, which we're going to show you when we get more in a paragraph formatting. So a bulleted or numbered list can work really good with this. And there's certain formatting issues that we have with that we're gonna overcome those as well by default in design is set up to hyphenate all the copy we put him there is our hyphenate button, and it allows me to turn on and turn off my hyphenation. Now, being a graphic designer and dealing a lot with type here, hyper nation is definitely considered one of those things that we don't use anymore. A lot of corporate clients do not like hyphenation. It was there in the days of typewriters when you couldn't control a lot of the information so hyphenation these days we simply turn it off. We have so many other ways that we can floor copy and hyphenation just really isn't necessary in many cases. So it's just simply clicking that off to turn off the hyphenation right there. Basic paragraph in formatting controls. Now, if you're working on something and in design here and you have trouble finding remembering where a particular menu was or where I can find something in design has this awesome feature. Right now I'm in the middle of editing type. If I want to call up all the type related items here, I can always right click with whatever I'm doing. What's gonna happen is I will get this contextual menu based on the tool in the object that I have selected. Right now, I have my type tool and my type container selected. I right click and I can deal with my font size changing these things, searching for spelling, adjusting my text, Rehm options and everything to do with text right there. Great. If I had my selection tool active and my container so I no longer have my type active, and I right click here. I get a totally different menu. Cut copy, paste, bring to front, send back lock in place. All that. So in design is one of the few applications that does this. If you are new to this just right, click on what it is that you're doing and you'll find all these relevant items that may help you out. If the menu doesn't look familiar, it doesn't look like what you want. Chances are you don't have the right tool or object combinations selected. So if I want my type, make sure I've got my type tool. I right click on. I get all my items relating to type, so text inside the container. Everything has to be inside the container what I'm doing, Type. For the most part, we're gonna get the type on a path. But almost everything you do is going to be inside a container. So I've been able to change all the aspects of this size format orientation. And now I notice that I get this little overflow in this little red plus on the box here tells me my container isn't large enough for all my copy. So I don't know how much copy I have in my container. I could have a lot. I could have a little with my selection tool active. I can click on the text container in any of my corners or any of my mid points. I get a pull handle and I'm able Teoh in larger reduce the size of my container. If I make the container narrower, it will flow in and just simply re flow all my copy. I can pull it out. I can close it up and make it any size. Clearly, when my container is too small, I get that overflow and I need to make it larger. If I don't know how much copy is in there, I can pull several different times to reveal the copy. Easy way to do this is to open up your text container by taking your selection tool and double clicking on the bottom middle handle. Right there. It will open up the container right to the end of your copy. If there's a lot of copy in there, it's going to open it up right to the bottom of the page because it can't go beyond the edge of the page. For those of you who like to draw really large text containers, and this happens, so you have this huge text container and you have just a little bit of text in there. That same method works exactly the same to close up your text container again. You're gonna select your text container, going to go to the bottom center handle right there, and you're going to double click, and it's going to snap it right to your text. So either way, it will open it up to reveal all of it, or it will close it up to that point. When you close it up to that point, last line just snaps it right to it. Nice and clean and tidy is a great habit to get into. So you just keep everything clean when you're working in your file, Because what happens when you have containers that are very large and you have a lot of copy in them, You can get a lot of overlapping containers that have these huge space is down here. And when you have those spaces and you try to click on something, you click on the container. So just shore up your container so you don't have all that extra container flap ege around there. Keep it neat and clean and tidy. There it iss Anytime you resize it, you may get type overflow. Not a problem. DoubleClick opens it right up there. It's good to go. So what happens to the actual container itself? Well, I can have as many containers on the page as I need. I'm gonna be doing a layout and they may have images here, and they may have copy, and I want to put text and other containers. I certainly can. I can create many containers. What I'd like to do is I would like to take this container, and I want to create multiple columns inside this container. I can open up this container, and I want to make my container this wide. But I'd like to divide this container up into multiple columns now, because this is a text container. This is the one thing that a little bit odd when it comes to buy whole breaking it out into type and an object here. I want to set my text container to have three individual columns. So I'm gonna go to my object menu because I'm dealing with my text container. I don't have my type active. And this is where people are like, Well, it's under the type containers. I'm dealing with type, Yes, but I'm dealing with container, and the container is not type. It's an object that contains type just to clarify under the object menu. I'm gonna call up text Rehm options, and we're gonna be revisiting this several times. I want to set certain options on my text frame so that the object or the text rain behaves in certain ways. So text frame options. First thing I can set this so I can have a certain number of columns within my text container itself. I'm gonna click on the preview button in the lower left hand corner so they can see what's going on. And I can set the number of columns so they can actually see the number of columns in my text container. And I do that. I have multiple columns in my container and the type will flow from one column to the next. I can change the width or the height of my container, and this will allow me to have balanced columns. And if I shorten up the height there, it's simply re flows from one to another to another thes air. Always gonna be symmetrical. I don't have the ability to go ahead and make them asymmetrical. There will always be equally divided to the width of my container, and the copy will always flow from here to here and then all the way on through. So I don't have to have three individual containers. I can have one single container now that could be changed under the object menu text frame options, two other locations. I can also go into my control bar when I have just the container selected and right here in my control bar is my ability to go in and set the number of columns and the space between the columns as well. If I have my container selected, I can say two columns or one column just like that now, because this is a text frame option kind of thing. I find it under the object menu. But in design is like you know what? So many people have their type selected, and they think that they want to go in and change the number of columns that even when you have your type selected, they put this in the control bar as well, so that no matter what tool or mode you're in, I can also change the number of columns, whether I have the type selected or have the container selected. That's kind of one overlap thing that doesn't really line up with everything else. It isn't completely compartmentalized is the actual text container. So I can control the number of columns either way having my selection tool active or my having my type active through either control bar or in the object menu with text frame options. So any container could have multiple columns inside the container and just simply flows to the very end of the container now, In some cases, I may have copy inside a container. I have too much copy inside the container here, and I would like to have my copy on this portion of the page, but I want to have a much longer container that's a totally different size. Well, clearly, if I have a container that's divided into multiple sections, they're all going to be the same with. So if I want different size containers in different locations, what I'm gonna do is I'm going to create a link so it flows from one existing container to another one, or even to another page. If I have a long article to flow in over multiple pages, I want all the containers to be connected. So if I make edits, it's automatically going to flow through it instead of individual containers that have a certain amount of text that don't flow. So this is how we create text links whenever I see that red plus at the lower right hand side of my container. That tells me I have more content in my container than I can handle. Either have to open the container up or you have to create a link to another container so it can flow in there with my selection tool active. I'm going to click on the container. Then I click on that Redd. Plus, when I click on that Redd, plus that Redd Plus goes away. I see a little arrow now, coming out of that right there. And I get what's called a loaded cursor and a loaded cursors Now allows me to draw another text container just like I drew the 1st 1 But I can draw this anywhere on the page or anywhere in another page, and this container will now linked to the new container that I'm drawing. So zoom out here, gonna draw container over here much different size. And there it ISS. So this container now has this little plus coming out of it right there. And if I click on my other container that has little plus going in. How do we know these air connected? Well, we're gonna turn on the spaghetti that connects it all together, and that's under the view menu under extras. And it's going to be show text threads show text threads come up. These text threads will only show if you turn that preference on and you have any one of the containers selected. If you click off the containers and none of the containers or selected, you will not see those text threats. Gotta have that preference turned on and the container selected. With that container selected, you will see the connection point between these individual containers. I can link as many containers as I want to anywhere throughout my document. First page, second page. I can skip a page. I can have five containers linked in a page. No difference. So I have this container here because I wanted a very narrow one in here and have it be very long for my layout and I have more text. So I'm going to again click on that overflow and I'm going to get 1/3 container, which I'm then going to put over here, and I'm going to make horizontal, and there it is, and that container has overflow. And then I'm going to draw another one over here, and there's all my copy and I can see everything linked together. Great. So with it all linked together here, I can see how this works any container. If I close it up. Simply pushes to another existing container. If I opened up the container, everything flows back in. It's all linked together. It's like water. Push it in, pull it out. Works just fine. I could move these containers anywhere I want to. But be very careful when you're doing this. Have you ever put your christmas lights away or had a ball of yarn and you really didn't do a very good job. You can kind of get everything jumbled up. So, having these things, you'll always notice It always comes out the lower right hand side and always enters in the upper left hand side. I have four containers. How hard could it be? Well, let me go ahead, and I'm gonna move these around here, and all of a sudden, that's what you get. And it's like, Wow, you know, you could really get confused really quickly with everything going everywhere. And the answer is yes, you can. Okay, so when you are flowing a copy and we're gonna get to flowing. Copy in. I like to flow. Copy and unlinked tanks, two containers. We're gonna put one story together at a time. Each story will be in its own set of containers. And then it's end. We start a whole new set of containers. I'm not going to link everything from the front to the back. I'm not gonna have a 512 page novel and link every single page together. No section by section, chapter by chapter, all that. I have four containers on the page here, and it's already crazy. So in order to rearrange the whole thing, I've got to see how that all works and get it all back to normal so that things don't get wacky and crazy with these text containers, though I can follow the links over multiple pages, click off them. The text threads disappear. Look back on them at any point. I can edit any of the copy. I can add more copy to it. I can take copy away. Nothing goes away until I physically delete the copy. If I decide that I no longer want this container in the middle of the chain here I click on it. I hit my delete key. What happened? All the copy where to go? Is it gone? Nope. It just simply took that link out of the chain. It reconnected to the rest of the links. That copy was then re flowed into my existing containers. And now I've got overflow at the bottom of this container, taking up all that overflow easy until I delete every single container in that link, I still have all my copy. I could go in and I could select this and delete. Select that, delete and leave that one. They still have all my copy. There are times, though, where I may want to go ahead and insert a new container in the middle of my chain. And so I've got this connection here. It's coming out of the 1st 1 here of the bottom is going into the 2nd 1 and I want to have a Lincoln side here. Not a problem. I'm going to click on my outgoing box right here and I get a loaded cursor. I'm gonna draw another container, and it automatically links it right together so I can take it out just by deleting it. That link stays established. I can put it in by clicking on the outgoing box, drawing another container, and it puts it right back. Yet it's really really difficult to mess up, but trying because I'd love to know what you're doing. So link containers are there so that you can flow into multiple containers generally of different size or different locations on the page or different pages. But if I wanna have individual containers that are all the same, that's where I would go in and they would take one single container and divide up that container into equal columns. So another way to actually break something from the chain completely is. If I wanted to get something to stop at a particular point in the story, I could go to my text overflow here, and I could just simply double click on that outflow. You see what happened? It cut off all the other links in the chain right there. And now it's stopped right there to show you that again. So I've got my links. I want to get rid of these. And I didn't know that I could just delete them. Well, I did, but But I want to stop it right here. I'm gonna go to the point where I want to stop it. Double click right there, and it simply cuts it right off. All the rest of the links in the chain there are no longer relevant have been taken out of the chain. And I'm now back to my text container. That's got all the rest of the overflow in it for me, right there. Doesn't get much more simple than that question digital dust would like to know. Is that only a C C feature? Do you? No, no, it has not been around for a while. It's yes, it's been around for quite some time, and we might be getting into this later. But K eight would like to know, Can you put a border around the text in a container? Oh, absolutely. It's just a container. I'm gonna egg fact. I'm gonna show you next because what's gonna happen here is on one of the next features is exactly that cool and from jasmine rain. I'm not sure if you'll get this, but maybe you will when you begin. When you began this segment, you clicked on three different types of containers. What are they and what are they used for? So we have three different types of containers and that's we're gonna get to that later this afternoon. But okay, these are just different shapes. Grazer all just containers. And actually, there's more than three. By the way, these are just the three basic ones, because this could be a square or a rectangle circle or an oval or any sided objects. So there's actually multiples. It's all just a container. It just is something that you put it in. Great, thank you. And I want to thank you guys out there on the Internet for your great questions. Of course, we're only at the very beginning of this workshop. So if you're not hearing your questions asked, just probably cause we will be getting to it later. So thanks again and keep them coming. Thank you. Absolutely OK. It was a digital dust that wanted to know about the That's perfect. Is that so? We're gonna show you next, so we've been able to flow content into the container. What you're looking at right now is you'll see these blue borders around everything. Those do not print those air. What's called your frame edges those air just there so you can actually see where everything ends and begins and again under our application bar if I turn off my frame edges there. This is what it's going to look like Normally, those frame edges appear when we click on them or hover over them, but they do not print. But we may want to have a border around our container, so I keep the frame edges on so we can see what we're working with here. And I have my container, and I would like to put a border around my container because it's a container. I can put a border and a fill on any container. Now you'll notice that the type runs right up to the very edge of the container. Well, because we're not going to see this container edge, we don't have to worry about it. So that's how it's going to print looks just fine. If I go in and I actually want to put a border around my container, I can select my container, go up into my control bar here, and I could just set the point size around my container, and there it ISS now. What most people would do is they would draw a totally separate container behind their text container, and then they put their text container on top, and you'd have all these weird little edges that don't quite line up or different spatial relationships. So we're not going to do that. But what happens is when you put a border around your container, your type sits right up to the very edge of that container. And this is the elevator syndrome. Okay, So whenever you get into an elevator, do you stand right next to the person in the elevator when there's only the two of you? Of course you do. You try to get as close as possible. You know how uncomfortable that is. Well, look at the type. The type feels so uncomfortable right up next to the box there. But you're like, Well, you know, that's how it works, Okay? No, you can set that. So what I'm gonna do with this container here is I'm gonna go back under my text frame options. You're going to get used to this text frame options, and the next set of options we're gonna be dealing with here is called inset spacing and inset spacing allows me to put a buffer zone inside my container so that the containers filled with a color or a have a border or a stroke around the container. I don't get this cramped feeling of being in an elevator right up next to you the next person. So that inset spacing puts this little force field inside the container, and it now has a nice amount of room. The reason why this is so important is because if you're gonna be creating a document that is going to have containers or strokes around your container, you want to maintain consistency throughout your entire document, guessing on this and drawing a container behind it. You're never going to get the same special relationship around there. You said it this way by your object text frame options, you will have an absolute measurement which working you will be able to reproduce every single time. What's nice about this? I've said in eight inch border around this, no matter what size they make my container, it will always remain at that Same size. Copy goes in there and you can see the little buffer zone you want more or less. You can do that. Click off it right there. Great. That's how it's going to look if you do two separate containers, one with the border and one with type. You're gonna have this thing where you will never get the same amount of border around your type and that special relationship. Now, another way of doing this as well. Of course. Right. Click on what it is. And guess what. There's your text frame options as well that you can call up this information so text in set is very important when you put a border or stroke around a container or you're using reversed, out type were containers filled with a color, and you want your type not to be right up against the edge of the border. If you have no border around this, there's no need to have the text inset because this isn't going to print anyway. So text in set really isn't an issue with no border, no Phil, but when it is, it makes it look nice and clean all the time. Next, what happens when you're trying to do something and you want to Belen something inside the container and you want to use this wonderful text frame options yet again? You're doing some type of wedding, and so you've got this wedding. Use my shortcuts here, and I'm gonna find this great wedding fought right there. Where is a great wedding font? Never know. I need something really good. Come on. Oh, well, that actually works. Okay, look and work. Okay, so now you're doing a wedding invitation and wedding invitations or formal. So everything has to be centered, so I could take my paragraph formatting center it right in the container to throw a nice little border around that container. There it is. Now, I want this to be centered from top to bottom inside my container. So you're like, Sure, return up that little bit too much, I can adjust my letting, and I can bring it all up there. And you're like, Oh, that's perfect. Well, until somebody goes in and adjust the size your container than your life, you know you had to touch it. So I'm gonna back up. That's what command Z is for you going back up lots and lots and lots of times in here. And I've been able to center my copy from left to right by going in and choosing my left to write justification or center justification here Now I want to center it vertically inside the container, no matter what high they make the container. I wanted to be centered vertically all the time. Object text frame options Again, I have vertical justification by default. When we start typing inside a container, it always starts at the top of the container. Left hand side fills in the top down from left to right, so under text frame options, my vertical justification can be set to center. When it's set to the centre. Here, it centers the copy inside the container and it allows me to make the container taller animal always center it from top to bottom. This particular font Let's see, Let me get rid of that stuff. This particular fund, the X height there is really, really short compared to the overall height of there would choose a different fonts. So it actually looks a little bit more centered in there. There we go. Kind of Ah, weird thought, but nonetheless. Now you can see it centered vertically inside there. I control the height of my container, and it always centers it vertically in there. You want to have something directly in there? That's how you do it. It also is dependent on the thought, as you saw from this particular font here, because the Excite is so small in the X height is the the actual height of the letter E and the I. In the end there we have a lot of copy of top there, so it kind of offsets a little bit in the window. So that's not an in design issue. That's the way the font is actually built for just in case you people are like, Well, that didn't work. It's like it did showed you with the other font to make sure. So that's how we can send a copy top to bottom in a container. We have our text inset that allows us to give us that buffer inside the container as well. We can link containers together. We've got everything rocking and rolling with our text containers, but in control the size font, letting turning, tracking. You got it