- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to create
a caption below the Tin Woodman, because as you can see
if I go ahead and press control zero,
or command zero on the Mac to zoom out,
he's got room for a caption beneath him.
And then we're going to format that caption
and finally we're going to save those formatting
attributes as a paragraph style that we can then
apply to future paragraphs as we'll see in the next movie.
So the first thing we want to do here
is find what's known as a pull quote,
which is a quote from the text itself
which will help to explain this graphic.
And so I'm going to press shift page down
in order to advance to the second art board.
And notice this paragraph right here that begins with,
"So they oiled his legs until he could move them freely."
It's these next two lines that I want to grab.
And so I'll go ahead and double click
anywhere inside the text in order to switch to the type tool
and then I'll marquis everything
after this semi colon right here.
So everything from the word "and" to this period
after the word "grateful."
And then I'll go up to the edit menu
and choose the copy command,
or you can press control c, or command c on the Mac.
Alright, now I'll go ahead and press the escape key
in order to switch back to the black arrow tool.
And I'm just going to space bar drag my way
back to the first art board so that we're zoomed into
this area, below the Tin Man's feet.
Alright now I'm going to click right here in order to select
that rectangle that we used to text wrap
this third column onto the next art board.
I just want you to remember it's here.
And that's because what I need to do
is draw a new text frame down here below the Tin Man,
and I'm going to do that using the type tool,
which I can either select from the tool box,
or I can get it by pressing the t key.
And now notice if I hover over the edge
of this rectangle, that my cursor turns into an I beam
surrounded by a dotted circle.
That's not what I want, because it indicates that I'm
going to put my text inside of this shape.
Instead I want an I beam surrounded by a dotted square,
which shows me that I'm going to create a new text frame
just by dragging like so.
And now that I have this text frame,
I'll go up to the edit menu and choose the paste command,
or I can just press control v here on the PC,
or command v on the Mac.
And that will go ahead and paste that text into this frame.
Alright now I'm going to modify the text a little bit.
I'm going to go ahead and replace this text right here
with the letter t, so we have the word "the."
And then I'll click after that word,
and enter "Tin Woodman" like so,
so that we're making it clear who the
subject of the sentence is.
Alright and now, press the escape key
in order to exit the text entry mode,
and switch back to the black arrow tool.
Alright, now notice that my text frame
remains selected, which means I can format
this entire paragraph by going up to the control panel
and changing for example the style from regular
to for example Italic.
And I could go with Italic caption of course,
which is presumably going to give me a little higher x height,
that is it's going to make my lowercase letters
a little taller, but it's unlikely that you have that
style on your machine, so I'll just stick with Italic.
And then I'll click on the word "character" to bring up
my character panel, and I'll click on this type size icon
in order to highlight the value,
and I'll change it to sixteen, and then I'll tab over
to the leading value, and I'll change it to eighteen like so
and then I'll press the enter key,
or the return key on the Mac to make that change.
And then finally, I'll go over here to my swatches panel.
I'll make sure the fill is active.
And then I'll click on this shade of blue, let's say.
R zero G 113 B 188, in order to change the color of that
text like so.
Alright now I have a specific idea in mind
for how big this text frame should be,
and to apply those values, I'll go up to the type menu
and choose area type options.
And now I'll just go ahead and change the width value
to something very close to what it already is; 284,
so 284 points.
And then I'll click on the word height here,
in order to make that value active,
and I'll change it to 52 points.
And then I'll press the tab key
to advance to the next option.
And that way I can turn on the preview check box
and see my changes applied here on screen.
At which point, I'll go ahead and click okay
in order to accept that change.
And now I'll drag that text frame
a little bit over so that it snaps into alignment
with the bottom right corner of the margin guide.
Alright now let's say I want to save all these
formatting attributes as what's known as a paragraph style.
And here you're going to have to give me a leap of faith,
because it's not till the next movie that I'll prove
just how useful these things are,
but if you give me a little bit of latitude here,
go up to the window menu,
and then go all the way down
until you come across the type option,
and then that'll bring up a sub menu
as we're seeing right here,
at which point you can choose paragraph styles
in order to bring up the paragraph styles panel.
Now the great thing about paragraph styles
versus character styles is that paragraph styles
save more formatting attributes.
So in a nutshell, a character style will save
character level formatting attributes,
such as font and type size, and color,
whereas a paragraph style will save everything,
including what I just told you,
as well as alignment, and paragraph spacing, and so on.
So when in doubt, when you're saving
formatting attributes you want a paragraph style.
At which point you want to create the style
by clicking on this little page icon.
The problem is if you do that, you'll create
an unnamed style here inside the paragraph styles panel,
and then you'll have to turn around
and rename it, which can become very confusing
if you have more than a handful of styles
inside this panel.
So what I recommend you do is name the style
as you create it by pressing the alt key
or the option key on the Mac,
and then clicking on that page icon.
And that'll bring up this ginormous paragraph style options
dialog box, at which point all you have to do
is name the style.
You really don't have to do anything else,
although you can just go ahead
and confirm a few attributes such as Minion Pro,
Italic, size is sixteen point, leading is eighteen point
and so forth.
So in other words, everything about this text block
is in tact, at which point you can go ahead
and click okay in order to create that new style
called caption.
And now, just for good measure,
you want to apply that style to the selected text
by clicking on it.
Now, at that point you may see a little plus sign
after the word caption.
If you do, that indicates that you might potentially
have local overrides, meaning that there
might be some differences between this text
and the style.
Just to make sure everything is copacetic,
go ahead and press the alt key,
or the option key on the Mac.
You shouldn't have to do this,
but you do anytime you see a plus sign,
go ahead and alt click, or option click on it
in order to make sure that there are no local overrides,
and that everything about this text block
matches this paragraph style.
At which point you can go ahead and close this panel.
And we are now in a position to reapply
these exact same formatting attributes
to future paragraphs, just as I'll demonstrate
in the very next movie.