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Text and Type / Color to Bullet Styles




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In InDesign CS3 Adobe made adding color to bullets and their style a little bit more awkward. So if you're just new CS3 and you're trying to add color to your bullet like the one I have up here you'll find that it's a little different. So let me just scroll down here and here we've got a list and I want to create a bullet style. So first of all I'll create the style and I'll just, I've got all this selected here, it's really the same as the basic paragraph style but I'll come down and create a new style and I'll double click on its bullets and I'll come down and add a bullet here, bullets and numbering and we'll just choose bullets and numbering works the same way and I'm just going to accept the default bullet rather then go in and add a special character, but I'll like this bullet to be red. So where is it? There's no red here you can't do it from this dialog box, used to be able to do it but not anymore, but I'll accept it anyway. So how do we get it, I can't select it here because it's part of this built in style, so what I actually have to do is go out and create a character style here and I'll just click in the new style here, style 3, I'll double click on it and just call it red. Now I don't want to change any attributes of anything else so it's not going to override anything else except for the color. Here I'll click on the red, notice I'm giving it the fill rather then the stroke, don't want the stroke to change, click on ok, then if I go back into my paragraph styles here, double click on the bullets, come down to bullets and numberings. Here I can apply the character style to the bullets. Here I'll choose red, click on OK and its added that red bullet. Now of all the character styles down here are going to be controlled now by this character style red, so if I need to change it I can come in here, change the color and make it 70 percent of red. I need to turn the preview on of course, there dimmed out, I get to make it blue, back up to a 100 percent like that. If I want to change the size of it, changing the font family isn't really going to make any difference here. But if I can change that and I can change the position, superscript, etc, all of these affected. But other then anything that I've changed within this, it'll take on the character attributes of the style itself. So in order to add color to your bullet now you've actually got to create a character style and then apply it within the paragraph style. Me name this one red but it's not red anymore, so let's go back and change it and at least it makes sense this time.

Tutorial Information

Course: MasterClass! - Adobe InDesign Productivity Essentials
Author: Brian White
SKU: 33862
ISBN:
Release Date: 2008-03-20
Duration: 1.5 hrs / 44 lessons
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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