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Making the Switch from PageMaker to InDesign
To apply underline and strikethrough type styles,
choose Underline Options or Strikethrough
Options from the Control palette menu (in
Character mode).
For more information about selecting a font,
see InDesign Help.
Working with character and paragraph
styles
Both PageMaker and InDesign let you save
a collection of text-formatting attributes in
a paragraph style to save time and ensure
consistency when formatting text in your
document. In addition, InDesign lets you define
character styles to quickly and uniformly apply
formatting to a range of text within a paragraph.
As with paragraph styles, any changes you make to
a character style affect any and all text that has the
character style applied.
If you miss the default styles that appear in
PageMaker, you can create a set of styles to use in
all new documents you create. Just close all
documents in InDesign, and then create the styles.
For more information about styles, see
InDesign Help.
Creating bullets and numbered lists
PageMaker includes a Bullets and Numbering
plug-in that lets you automatically insert bullets or
numbers before paragraphs. InDesign also lets you
create bulleted and numbered lists. (See “About
bulleted and numbered lists” on page 46.)
Troubleshooting missing fonts
With PageMaker’s font-matching system, an alert
message appears when you open a publication that
uses fonts not available on your system. You can
then substitute an available font for the missing
font.
InDesign offers similar capabilities but a different
approach. Rather than changing which font is
applied, InDesign tells you which fonts are
missing, and also retains the font assignment. Text
formatted with a missing font is temporarily
displayed in an available font. By default, InDesign
highlights the text in pink to make it easier for you
to spot problems. Missing fonts appear in brackets
in the Control and Character palettes and in a
Missing Fonts section on the Type > Font menu,
so you can tell exactly which fonts you need to
install in order to view the document correctly.
Pink-highlighted text indicates a missing font.
