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In this, the last movie in this chapter, I'm going to show you how to set the Text Defaults in your document. Let me go ahead and create a text frame here and go Type, Fill with Placeholder Text. Now when I select this I can see this is Times Roman 12 point Auto Leading, et cetera, et cetera. Now if you don't want your type when you type, to automatically take on these attributes you can change the default so that it's something different. The way to do it is make sure you have absolutely nothing selected on the page, select your Type Tool here, and go through and make the changes with nothing selected. Here I can choose a different font, I can come up, I'll choose, I'll choose Swiss, which is like Helvetica, and I could make it Bold. I could make it 14 points and make the Leading 18 points. Here I could set maybe a space after each paragraph, I'll do it at point 2 like that. That way when I create new text Ð I'll just delete this one, and I'll put Placeholder Text in again, Fill with Placeholder Text, these are the attributes it takes on. So, if you know what you want in the beginning it's a good idea to set your document up like this and that way you're not going through and changing everything automatically. So now when that's done Ð let me close this out; I won't save it Ð and we'll create a New Document, and again I'll create a text frame and fill with placeholder text, Type, Fill with Placeholder Text, here we are, back to Times Roman again, I believe. Yup! That's exactly what it is. So, what we just did is fine for a document that you want to change the defaults, but if you want to change the defaults every time you open InDesign we've got to do something just slightly different. I'm going to close this out and I'll make sure we have no documents open. This window will show up when we've got no documents open but I'm just going to close it out so that you can see there's nothing here. Now, we'll select the Type Tool. We'll come over and change our Defaults. I'll scroll up here and we'll choose a different font, I'll choose Gaudy Sans; I'll change the default Type Style to 11 points and the Leading to 14; I'll go to the Paragraph Controls and set a Space Above for point 12, let's say. Now when I open a New Document I can go and click on OK, come over here, fill with placeholder text and there it's taken on the attributes. Now every document I open up from now on will have this as the text when I start typing Ð it becomes the default. So, to change the type default for an existing document, just for that one document, just click away, nothing selected, change your type. If you want it for all your documents, every time you open a new InDesign Document, close everything out and then just go through and set the Type. Now, I was just setting the Type, the Point, the Style, et cetera, but you can come through and select the colors, whether they have a stroke or not, and it works with objects and frames, just exactly the same way as I've just shown you here with Text.