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Using paragraph styles
You can use paragraph styles to create sets of text formatting specifications that you can save and apply to multiple paragraphs or text blocks in a document. Paragraph styles help you maintain visual consistency and simplify formatting tasks.
Paragraph styles let you specify settings for all the type specifications in the Text Character, Paragraph, and Spacing inspectors (except paragraph indents in the Text Paragraph inspector), as well as tabs and indents set with the text ruler, text effects, text color, and overprinting. (For information on overprinting, see Overprinting.)
You use the Styles panel to create and edit paragraph styles. Paragraph styles appear in the Styles panel scroll list in italic type, and in the Styles menu in the Text Character inspector. You can use styles as part of a document or template. For more information on templates, see Using templates.
You can create styles for objects as you do for paragraphs. You can duplicate, import, and export paragraph and object styles. For more information on these procedures, see Using styles.
To display the Styles panel:
Choose Window > Panels > Styles.
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