Setting Up Paragraph Styles

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November 8, 2021
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Hello,

I'm new to setting up paragraph styles. I'm creating a new template and I'm hoping to establish my fonts before I get to work on a new document. Can I do this, or do I need to set up paragraph styles once the document is already put together?

I guess my question is: Do paragraph styles get set up before a document is put together, or after?

Thanks for any help!

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Correct answer Mike Witherell

Either can work, but it makes sense to plan and build your paragraph styles near the beginning. It indicates you have a design plan.

Mike Witherell

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Community Expert

Either can work, but it makes sense to plan and build your paragraph styles near the beginning. It indicates you have a design plan.

Mike Witherell

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Anonymous

That makes sense, thank you. So you want to have your entire draft mapped out before using paragraph styles it sounds like.

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Migintosh

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This is where I was getting confused. Sometimes I'll have a design that's mostly mapped out, but I'll change my mind while in the design. It's hard for me to imagine setting up paragaph styles beforehand when the design often changes.

That's the time you want to have already made your paragraph styles. Suppose you want to change your main font, and you already have pages of type styled. If you have paragraph styles applied, just change the font in the style, instead of going through all of the type in all of the pages and changing it over and over. Some text will likely reflow, so it's not just click it and forget it, but paragraph (and character) styles will be a great benefit if you use them right.

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