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Formatting Type

put guys in her page had our grids in her columns turned those on and off. Very simple and easy way, of course, in our drop down menu, where returned on a ruler's you can see we can turn off our guides on our page right there. Easy way to do it under the view menu as well. Keyboard shortcut to hide your guides is command semi colon, and that's gonna work so command semi colon turns them on, turns them off quick and easy way another way. If you want to hide all of your grids, Oliver guides and all of your frame edges, and you'll see those frame edges around every tool or every type container and every image container. Those frame edges can also be hidden under the drop down menu. Here in your application frame, weaken, turn off our frame edges. Frame edges are separate from our guides, and you can go through and turn those on and off each individually or at the very bottom of your toolbar. We have our different preview menus, and we have a redundant set right here in our application fra...

me as well. We're a normal boat, which means we can see our grids or guides our frames around our containers. Going into preview mode, it shuts off all of our grids, all of our guides, all of our frame edges. And this is basically how it's going to look when we go to print. I usually work in preview mode here when we start off in and out. And the quick and easy way to change preview mode is yes, you can always go in. Go back to normal here, but who wants to be normal? Keyboard shortcut for going in between preview mode and normal boat is simply W. And if you forget that shortcut, go down to the bottom of your toolbar and you'll see preview and in parentheses you'll get your W. That's how you preview. Okay, now we're gonna deal with text with text, basic things within design. Pretty much everything has to go into a container. You want to put text in your in design, you gotta have a container. You want to put an image in there. It's got to be inside a container. So I'm gonna start withdrawing container here and in design two different ways. I can I to go to one of my containers and I can draw a container first and then switch over to my type tool for the easy way. Just click on the type tool. You'll never guess what the shortcut is for the type tool. Oh, my gosh, You got it right. It's T exactly type tool. You wanna draw container, you can take the type tool, click and drag, and you will create a container. Now, with that container, we have our cursor flashing. There's our container were able to go in with our type tool, and we can type in anything that we'd like to in this container. But a quick and easy way to fill a text with or a container with some text is Teoh. Go into the tight menu and near the bottom of our tight menu. I'm just gonna fill with placeholder text right now. I don't have any copy that's going to go in here right at this point. So I just want to fill in with some placeholder copy, so fill it with placeholder. Copy. Perfect Fills the entire container just like I like. Now I'm going to zoom in on this and of course, if I go to my zoom tool. I'm going to use my wonderful little shortcut that I just taught myself coming on space bar. Zoom into my type tool There I am. So in order to edit my type, I have to have my type tool active. When I'm with my type in my type tool, I can click anywhere inside my container. It will activate the container and I can select my copy and I can make changes. We're going to be switching back and forth between the selection tool. When I switched to the selection tool, my selection tool allows me to select my actual container that my text is in. I can also click on the pull handles to change the size of my container horizontal vertical whenever I want to. And then in order to go back in and edit the type, I will need to get back to my type tool so I can go in and make an edit. The type now in design has set this up because you're gonna be doing a lot of type editing and a lot of moving of items really quick and easy way. This shortcut is a no brainer. If you have your selection tool active in your in or on a text container, simply double click. It automatically switches from the selection tool right to the type tool, and then you're right in there. Now if I want to go back to the selection tool, hover over my selection tool here. And it says there's two shortcuts for the selection tool. Pretty unique because there's no other shortcuts or tools that have just two shortcuts This, but this one has to. Why is there too? Well, in most cases, when I want to get to the selection tool, I can just hit the letter V. What happens when I'm in type boat and I hit the letter V. You get the letter V? So that's why that second tool hit right there, says Escape. So if I hit escape when I'm inside tight mode, it will get me back to my selection tool. So there is my selection tool. DoubleClick. I'm in type editing mode. Escape will get me out of that. Try to go ahead and type the letter V in there, and whatever you have selected, we'll get to the letter V, so escape will get you back out to your selection tool. Double click will get you back into your type tool. We're going to use that all the time again. If you type t for your type two a while you're in here, you're already in the type. Tools don't have to worry about that. Okay, so we're in type editing mode. My cursor is flashing in here, and in order to change the type here, I have to have the type selected. So clicking and dragging like you normally would. It's fine to do inside the container. A couple things we have to pay attention to, and we may not be able to select all of the contents of the container and you'll see down the lower right hand corner. Here we've got this little red overflow square that could be a problem so quick and easy ways to go and select the type rather than just going in and manually dragging over the type. Simple, but the type tool double click get you a single word. Triple click goes from margin to margin does the entire line. Four clicks will do an entire paragraph and five clicks will do all of the text inside the container. Whether you see all the text or not, this is very important. If my container is not displaying all the text which in this case it is not because I have the red overflow here and I want to go in and change the size of the color or the typeface. If I do not have all the copy selected, I will not change all the copy. And in this case, I may have a lot more copy outside the container. So DoubleClick is a word. Triple click is a line for clicks is a paragraph five clicks is absolutely everything. Six clicks starts right back at the beginning. So don't over click or else you're gonna start all over now five clicks is a lot to keep track of. I lose my train of thought halfway through and then I What was I saying? So five clicks is a lot of clicks. If you want to select everything inside your text container under the edit, you can choose select all because I have the type tool selected and it's in the type container. If I want to select all the copy in the container, Commander control. A is select all that is the equivalent of five clicks. So I put my cursor in here Command A. It is now selected. Everything in the container even copy that I cannot see select all is everything Not just what I want to see. So that's really helpful in that once you have your copy selected, however you want to do that up in my control bar, everything showing up for either my type or my character formatting or my paragraph formatting controls. Based on what little button I push my a is going to be my character formatting controls my p is gonna be my paragraph formatting controls with my type selected, I can now go in and I can choose a font that I want to apply. I can use my thought drop down menu and I will be able to go through and see what my fault name is, and then it gives me a little sample off to the side here, and that's fine. But I may not get a really accurate representation of this, and I can scroll through all of this as well. And what you have here is you have a couple unique features. This tight menu looks a bit more robust if you've used a older version of in design. If I have a particular style of font that I like to use all the time, let me find one that isn't horrible. Avenir right there works great. I can go in and I can choose Avenir, and I can actually make it a favorite by clicking on the star. That way I can have it so that those favorites will be grouped together. Do you notice how I've just used that? And it's now at the top. I have my show favorites only if I have 10 or 15 favorites, and I don't want to use all these weird fonts there that I downloaded for free. I can just go ahead and ignore those I don't have to, but it's very easy to Dio. And if you are a type virgin where you have no idea what's on your computer, you have no idea what is going to look like. This is an awesome feature. I use this all the time. I've got lots of fonts and I don't know exactly what every thought looks like, but I'm looking for a particular thought. That's going Teoh really create the message that I want. So instead of going to my font drop down menu, I'm simply going to put my cursor right next to the name off the font. In my fault Drop down window, my type is selected on my page. My cursor is next to the name of the type in the field, and I'm just going to use my up or down arrow, and that's going to allow me to scroll through all of the active fonts that I have up or down. So if my type is selected, Aiken, see, and if I want something, it's like, Oh, I got kind of this, you know, handwriting script. There I've gotten What is this? The ransom note? That's a really good one. So long as my type is selected, I can scroll up or down. Photo Shop has been able to do this for years. Illustrator just came on board with this. The last version and in design has been able to do this for the last few versions as well. So once I find a particular font that I like, I don't have to know what the name of it is. I just want to scroll through it just like that. If I don't have any type selected, I won't be able to go and scroll through this. So I do that now. When I get to a particular fought down below, I can pick a style and it is regular italics, bold, italic. And if a thought comes with all these different styles associated with it, that's great. What in design will not let you do it will not let you do fake boulder fake italics. There is no bold or italic button here to push just to get a boulder italic. If you want bold or italic, you will need to go and choose from that font that has bowled in italics. If you choose a font that does not have bowled a night, Alec, you don't get it or you'll need to choose a different thought. So no fake, bold, no fake. I tell it to money printing issues when you use that so in design, don't even have it. But for those of you who use in design quite a lot, the previous shortcuts for bold and italics shift command be and shift command. I still exist. Okay, So if the fought actually does have an I tell I can you do shift command, I it will actually go in. And it will actually call up the italics style. If it has it. If it doesn't have it, nothing's gonna happen. So that's an old throwback, Teoh. My days back in the fifties, you know, when I started using this software. So if you do want to use that but it will not give you a fake, bold and italic if the thought does not have that, Okay, next, we have our point size. So this is the size of our type. We can go from a preset menu. We can also highlight the value and type in anything that we want. And in return, we can also use our little chipmunk up and down arrows and simply nibble away at the point size right there. Now, quick and easy way. We gotta have shortcuts in order to do this. So shift command and then period and comma. I call it greater than or less than because again, your period and comma share your keys with your greater than and less than symbols. They're they're sitting at your computer. Look at that and confirm that Yes, they are. One arrow goes one way. One era goes the other way greater than makes it bigger Shift Command less than makes it smaller. And this is doing it in one point anchor and two point increments right here. And the reason why this is doing it this way is because my preferences that are set up as we set up before are set up in my preferences under my units and increments here to go ahead and have my size and my letting be it two points and my baseline shift. So this is where when I changed my preferences here, I want to change the preferences for this particular file. So when I use these shortcuts, I'm not getting my increase in my decrease in my point size in two point increments. I don't want it to get that big in that small that fast. This is where I said it preferences, units and increments. So now shift command greater than or less than we'll do it in one point. Increments up and down and size. I don't need to go through an access these drop down menus, but they certainly could do that. I can go into my tight menu and I can adjust the size this way. But as you can see, this is far more complicated than using it right here in the control bar. And even better yet, using the shortcuts below this is letting and letting a space between lines. You'll see that this is actually in parentheses, right here. The parentheses mean that this is an auto mode, which means, as I increase the size of my type with letting or the space between the lines is going to increase automatically drop down menu next to this, you can see that auto is checked right there, and it just gives you in parentheses there. That's way. You know, if you increase the size, you're also going to increase the letting in between. If you put an absolute number in here, say 10 and I increase the size, the letting will not increase, and you can see how all the type runs into itself. So the auto feature is really quite nice. As the type gross. So does the space between the letting in between. Nice to have again. I can use the drop down menu. I can use the upper down arrows. I can highlight the field and type in a value and hit return. Easiest way to do this is shortcuts, letting option or Ault up. Arrow tightens it up option are all down Arrow loosens it up and letting a space between lines. A lot of times, people get letting and current confused. This is the way I remember it. Letting is between lines. Koerting is between characters, so shift command greater than or less than increases decreases the point size of the type option up or down arrow increases and decreases it. Your preferences under your units and incremental lets you control the actual increment range for these particular shortcuts. Next, in our plethora of options here in the control bar, our basic styles. So all caps superscript underline lower case caps, sub script. Strike through simple stuff. No bold, no italic. Can't get it. Not gonna happen next is dealing with all of our current ing or tracking. Turning and tracking is the space between characters. Some fonts have a lot of space between each character. Other ones have minimal space between characters and when type can get very large, you can see that the spatial relationships between those characters may not look as well as you want them to be. So this is where we actually go in. And we can control that spacing either bit by bit, between each and every individual character overall in each and every line. So I'm gonna come up here and I'm going to look and I've got my copy right here. And I see that, you know, this has a little bit of extra space in between here that's facing looks good. And if I wanted to go in and we normally do this on headlines when the type gets larger, I don't usually do it on body copy, but we're gonna show you what current ing is. So Koerting is space between individual characters and the way you work on this is you put your cursor in between those individual characters that you want to adjust the current ing and this particular one is current ing right here. Drop down, menu weaken, go negative, which is going to bring the letters together. We could go positive, which will send them apart, and I can go through and say Okay, make a little bit tighter, but going through the drop down menu is really tedious. So short cut for doing current ing. Put your cursor between those letters. Option left arrow brings them together. Option Right arrow brings them apart so I can go through an individually control my turning between there so that everything looks visually balanced. All the spaces between the letters Now obviously, letters have different curves in different shapes and forms and letters air going toe married up to each other differently, so each one has to be done separately. So that's Kern ing individual characters option right arrow option left arrow, but your cursor where you want it. Overall, you may end up with word. You may end up with letter spacing that overall, on a particular line, seems a little too tight or seems to be a little bit too loose. Overall. Going in and doing every single space between them can be a bit tedious. But if I was going through here and I wanted Teoh make all my letter spacing little bit tighter or looser overall, that's called tracking. Really. It's just turning, but on a much larger scale. We're still adjusting this base between all of this, but we're doing it all at once, and tracking is right underneath Koerting again. It looks exactly the same. You wouldn't notice any difference. And the shortcut is exactly the same option Left Arrow is going to tighten everything up. Option right there was going to loosen everything up. And the only difference is with tracking is I've got everything selected. Whereas current ing I just have the cursor in between individual characters and therefore Onley that is being adjusted. Okay, so Koerting and tracking sometimes is used universally there. But technically, it's not exactly the same, but pretty darn close. But a question. Is there a way to avoid Ah, the fount sometimes pushing outside their bounding boxes, especially when it comes to headlines pushing outside their bounding boxes. Well, the container is absolute, so it's not going to go outside the container unless you may have, like, a sender. That kind of goes outside. That I think at the top of your page, uh, the that graphic or the that type right there. You see how the G Yes. So that's a D center. Yeah, that's so Yes. So the D sender is actually going below the baseline here. So I've created my text container and snap that right to the baseline there. So technically, everything is still inside the container. Thank you. So with my type right here, we've been able to go in change the font size, the letting styles, the current ing in the tracking as well. Over here, we get into what I call the stretchy type, where you can go in and you can horizontally and vertically Stretcher type. Don't do it. Okay? Just because you can go win and stretch it, do not do it. Any true type person who loves type, this is cruelty against type. And I'm sure there's a law against it, OK, some people like oh, well, I just need to go ahead and stretch it out to fill the entire container. We offer help for you, and those are called design classes. If you don't like the way the type is, choose a different type face, don't go in and stretching it. And then we also have what I call the drunk until t type. And they have this thing called skewer false italics and people are like, Oh, I'll just go. We end and I'll just lay it over and be like I now have italics. Now, I call this drunk until t type. You think it looks good? No, it doesn't. If you want to relight Alec, get one. They're fantastic. Okay, so I don't recommend using those or you can just don't ever publish it anywhere. Okay, so that's pretty much are type formatting going through and being able to control that you can access all this stuff under the tight menu, but in reality, the control bar, you've got everything that you need right there.