- [Instructor] In this movie,
we're going to introduce the scarecrow into our document,
and then we're going to give him a caption,
we're going to format that caption
using our new paragraph style, and then in the end,
I'll show you how to redefine a paragraph style,
and watch both captions update in kind.
All right, so the first step is to retrieve the scarecrow
from the document that contains both of our characters.
And now, I'll go ahead and click on the scarecrow layer
down here at the bottom of the layers panel,
and I'll select the contents of that layer by clicking
on this triangle in the upper right corner,
and that will go ahead
and select every path outline associated with that creature.
Next I'll go up to the edit menu
and choose the copy command,
or I can press ctrl+c or cmd+c on the Mac,
and then I'll go ahead and switch over to our document
in progress, and I'll advance to the third art board
by clicking on the last icon down here
in the lower left corner of the screen.
All right, now I'll go over here to the layers panel,
I'll click on the fly out menu icon,
and I'll make sure
that paste remembers layers is still turned on.
At which point, I'll just go up to the edit menu
and choose the paste command, or I can press ctrl+v or cmd+v
on the Mac in order to paste my scarecrow into place.
Now, if you're working along with me,
you have to be very careful not to select the text,
because if you do,
you'll end up with a big mess on your hands,
and you'll have to undo and try again.
So what I'm going to do is drag on this hand right here,
because it seems to be out of the way of the text,
in order to move him over to the right like so,
and I want to more or less center him inside
of this right column,
and I might press the up arrow key a few times
in order to nudge him upward as well.
And then once I've got him in the right location,
I'll go ahead and move that layer down the stack
to let's say right below the Tin Man layer,
and then to prevent any harm from occurring
to the scarecrow, I'll go ahead and lock that layer
by clicking in this second column here
inside the layers panel.
All right, now we have to go back
and retrieve the Tin Man's caption,
and I'm going to do that by clicking
in the first icon down here
in the bottom left corner of the screen,
and then I'll click on that caption
with the black arrow tool to select it,
and I'll press ctrl+c or cmd+c on the Mac to copy it,
and now I'll once again click on the last icon
in the lower left corner of the screen to switch
to the third art board, and I'll press ctrl+f or cmd+f
on the Mac in order to paste that caption in front.
Now based on experience, I know that this frame needs
to be a little bit taller, and so I'm going to go up
to the type menu and choose the area type options command,
and then I'll change the height value to 70 like so,
and I'll click ok.
And that'll give me a little extra room to work.
At which point, I'll go ahead and drag that frame up
so that it snaps into alignment with the bottom right corner
of the margin guides.
All right, now we need to go hunting for a pull quote,
which happens to be on the first art board once again.
So if you're working along with me, click on the first icon
in the bottom left corner of the screen,
and then notice this fifth paragraph,
the one that begins with,
"It must be inconvenient to be made of flesh."
Go ahead and double click inside of that in order to switch
to the type tool, and now I'm going to very carefully select
all of that paragraph from quote to quote
as we're seeing here, and I'm not triple clicking,
by the way,
because I don't want to select the paragraph return.
I just want to select the text.
And now I'll press ctrl+c or cmd+c on the Mac
to copy that text.
All right, now I'll press the escape key in order
to exit the text entry mode, and I'll click
on the last icon down here in the bottom left corner
of the screen to advance to the third art board,
and then I'll double click inside this caption.
I'll select this text once again by dragging over it
and I'll press ctrl+v or cmd+v on the Mac in order
to paste that text like so.
And I am ctrl+spacebar or cmd+spacebar clicking
to zoom in here, even though I have active text,
that is possible.
But I want you to notice
that even though I was so careful not
to select a paragraph return and to copy one group
of letters into another,
I have still brought over the old formatting attributes.
And that's why it's so wonderful
that I have that paragraph style.
All right, I'm going to make a couple of edits here.
I'm going to go ahead and select this text right there
and delete it, and now I'll click in front
of the word however and add a quote like so.
So we're just tidying up this quote
so it works as a caption,
and now I'll press the escape key in order
to accept that change.
All right, now we need to apply that paragraph style
by once again going up to the window menu, choosing type,
and then choosing paragraph styles,
which will bring up the paragraph styles panel right here.
Now, by all rights, all you should have to do is click
on the caption style in order to apply it,
but notice we get that little plus sign which tells us
that we have local overrides, which is fairly obvious given
that nothing really changed.
And so to eliminate those local overrides,
go ahead and press the alt key or the option key
on the Mac and click on caption again in order
to get rid of the plus sign and properly style that text.
All right, now let's say at this point,
or even a few hours later, you decide
that the captions really oughtn't to be blue.
They ought to be red.
In that case, you can redefine the style,
and here's the easiest way to do that.
Go ahead and double click inside the text once again
to switch to the type tool,
and then double click on a word to select it.
And now I'll assign a new color by this time going up
to the first swatch up here in the control panel
and I'll click on it to bring up this swatches panel,
and then I'll assign that dark shade of red,
which is R193, G39, B45,
and we end up with this red text as we can see right here.
And it's easier to see, of course,
when I click off the text like so.
All right, now you want to go ahead and select that text,
and you don't have to select the entire word, by the way,
you can just select a few characters,
but make sure that you're selecting just the red text,
none of the blue.
And then return to this paragraph styles panel,
click on its fly out menu icon,
and choose redefine paragraph style,
and that will go ahead and update all the text to red.
And not only will you update this caption, by the way,
but if I drop down to these navigation icons
in the bottom left corner of the window and click on first,
you can see that I've updated the other caption as well,
because it's linked to that same paragraph style.
All right, and now I'm going to go ahead and zoom in
on this page, and I'll turn off the guides as well,
because, folks, we are finally done with this document.
And that's how you save a bunch of formatting attributes
as a paragraph style, apply that paragraph style
to other text objects, and redefine that paragraph style
any time you like here inside Illustrator.