Adobe InDesign Using Paragraph and Character Styles 2

Question 1

What is the key difference between a paragraph style and a character style in InDesign?

Accepted Answer

Paragraph styles apply to entire paragraphs while character styles apply to selected text runs

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Paragraph styles only control color while character styles control font

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Character styles apply to whole stories only

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There is no functional difference

Question 2

Which attribute can only be set by a paragraph style, not a character style?

Accepted Answer

Text alignment (justification)

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Font family

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Font color

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Tracking

Question 3

What does it mean when a paragraph style name shows a plus sign (+) next to it in the Paragraph Styles panel?

Accepted Answer

Local overrides have been applied to the selected text

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The style is corrupted

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The style is imported from another document

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The style is a child of another style

Question 4

How do you clear all local overrides from text using a paragraph style?

Accepted Answer

Alt/Option-click the style name in the panel

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Delete the style

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Re-import the style

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Press Escape

Question 5

What is the benefit of basing one paragraph style on another (parent style)?

Accepted Answer

Changes to the parent automatically cascade to children unless overridden

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It locks the child style from editing

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It deletes the parent style

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It converts text to outlines

Question 6

Which panel lets you apply a character style to selected words?

Accepted Answer

Character Styles panel

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Paragraph Styles panel

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Layers panel

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Pages panel

Question 7

What happens if you apply [None] as a character style to selected text?

Accepted Answer

It removes the character style attributes, leaving paragraph-level formatting

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It removes all formatting including the paragraph style

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It deletes the text

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It converts the text to a paragraph style