# Working with Paragraph and Character Styles in Adobe InDesign with Jason Hoppe

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## Overview

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Working with Paragraph and Character Styles in Adobe InDesign is a comprehensive class designed to eliminate repetitive formatting and give you greater control over text in multi-page documents. You'll learn how to create and use Paragraph and Character Styles to build more efficient, consistent layouts.

Manual text formatting is the enemy of efficiency and consistency in professional layout design. This class breaks down the complexities of Adobe InDesign's style architecture and shows you how to build automated, reliable text systems that allow you to reformat hundreds of pages with a single click.

This class includes a dedicated 30 minutes of Q&A directly with Jason Hoppe.

### What You'll Learn

- Master the fundamental differences between Paragraph and Character Styles.
- Chain styles together using Next Styles for instant text flow.
- Use Nested Styles and GREP to automatically format specific words or symbols.
- Map, override, and update styles globally across large documents.

### Who It's For

- Editorial designers who want to create more consistent multi-page layouts.
- Book layout artists who need a more efficient system for formatting large amounts of text.
- Administrative professionals who regularly work with structured InDesign documents.
- InDesign users with baseline familiarity who struggle with manual text formatting and document inconsistency.

### About the Instructor

An Adobe® Certified Expert and Adobe® Certified Instructor, Jason Hoppe has accrued more than 17 years' experience in high-end production training, photo retouching, color correction, and creative workflow management.

Jason has been performing high-end electronic production since the industry's inception. During this time, he has taught prepress and electronic design to hundreds of Seattle-based creative professionals and aspiring designers in a variety of settings, including one-on-one tutoring, classroom instruction, live webcasting, and large group training.

He currently teaches the Adobe® Creative Suite at The School of Visual Concepts, Luminous Works, and Seattle Central College, and was the founding Instructor at CreativeLive.

## Instructors

### Jason Hoppe

An Adobe® Certified Expert and Adobe® Certified Instructor, Jason Hoppe has accrued more than 17 years’ experience in high-end production training, photo retouching, color correction, and creative workflow management.

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $99