Creating and applying character styles

Paragraph styles are great for formatting the bulk of your text and should be your first-choice style for general text formatting. However, sometimes you might want to simply have a small piece of text in the middle of a paragraph that is formatted differently from the surrounding text. A few examples of this would include email addresses, hyperlinks, and quotes. You can’t use a paragraph style for this as they impact the whole paragraph, and while you could use overrides, that would introduce potential problems, not least around the consistency of the formatting.

Character styles offer you a way to consistently format text in this type of scenario without having overrides consistently flagged in your content, and while still maintaining consistency throughout the document.

In this recipe, we will look at creating, redefining, and removing character styles within your document.

Getting ready

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