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All InDesign training courses should include coverage of the use of styles to improve workflow and maintain consistency within a document and across several documents. Most computer users have some familiarity with what styles are: named formats which can be applied to your text as an alternative to manually applying each formatting attribute individually. Even users new to InDesign will probably have encountered styles in Microsoft Word: “Heading 1″, “Heading2″, “Normal”, etc. However, InDesign’s use of styles is much more sophisticated and we always ensure, when we run InDesign training courses in London, that we emphasise their importance.

Before you can format or edit your text, you need to highlight it. Highlighting your text is a way of telling Microsoft Word that you plan to work with a certain piece of text. (Highlighting is also known as selecting.)

The simplest way of selecting text is to position the cursor where you want to start highlighting, click and hold the mouse button down and drag to the spot where you want to end the highlight. It is not essential that you drag across every single line that you want to highlight. It is sufficient to drag in a straight line from the start to the finish.

To deselect your text and remove the highlight, click anywhere in your text. The flashing cursor will then reappear.