Now the Control Palette is active here at the top, it tells us that we are using the default formatting which is Times, Regular, 12 point, on Auto Leading which is round about 14.4, I think it's about 20 or 30% of the original type size.
Now we want to reformat this type a couple of ways and generate a style sheet for it. So the first thing we are going to do is anywhere inside the first few lines of that type, click the mouse four times to select the first paragraph. It's good to know that as an option because doing that four clicks will also pick up the paragraph written over here on the right side which is part of the same paragraph.
If you do a selection simply by clicking-and-dragging like so, you won't pick up the paragraph or turn, and that can become slightly dangerous when you start making new style sheets because InDesign won't know what you want to make a style sheet from. So safety barrier again, four clicks just to select the entire paragraph.
Now font-wise, we will leave it as Times for a second, but we want to change the Type size, and like I said, it's set to 12 point here, you can come up to the Menu and choose a different Preset size by going down through the list. You can either click Up and Down here to change by 1 point at a time or even once you have got this value selected, you can also use the arrow keys on the keypad up and down to change the point size 1 point at a time.
Let's try something different here based on a shortcut. If you have these values still selected, you will see highlighted in whichever color your system is set to. You make sure at this point you just hit Return or Enter to OK that value, otherwise, the keyboard shortcut we try out won't work.
If you are trying to use any keyboard shortcut in InDesign when relating to type and you find that nothing is actually changing, have a look up here in your Control Palette because the chances are, you still have one of these values selected and that can slow you down, it gets a bit confusing.
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