The Process Manual

Find and Change This feature allows you to search for certain words, phrases or features of your document to change them. 1. Select Edit > Find/Change . 2. Choose to search the Document or All Documents. 3. In the Find what field, type the word or phrase you wish to find. You can also specify certain characters using the pop-up menu. 4. In the Change to field, type the new word or phrase you want to replace the found items. 5. You may also choose to search for text characteristics, such as fonts, and then replace them. To do this, click the More Options button. 6. Under Find Format Settings, click the Format button. Use the panes in the left window to set the characteristics you want to find. 7. Under Change Format Settings, click the Format button. Use the panes in the left window to set the characteristics you want to replace the found items. 8. Click Change All to perform the find and change throughout the document. If you only want to find items, not change them, click the Find Next button. 9. A dialog will appear telling you how many changes were made. Click OK . Click Done to exit the Find/Change dialog. TYPE STYLES AND STYLES PALETTE You can create styles in your InDesign documents that can be easily applied to text. If your Character or Paragraph Styles palette is not already open, select Type > Character Styles or Type > Paragraph Styles. Should I create Character styles or Paragraph styles? You should make that decision based on how you plan to use the style. Character styles can be applied to individual words or characters; Paragraph styles are applied to entire paragraphs or multiple paragraphs. Paragraph styles allow you to specify more options for your style, including tabs, indents and hyphenation. To create a new style: 1. Select New Style from the palette menu. 2. In the New Style dialog, name your style, for example, Student Life Headline A. 3. In the left window, click the panels to set various characteristics of your style.

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