7. Working with Type

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Import text.

• Create columns of type.

• Change text attributes.

• Create and edit paragraph and character styles.

• Copy and apply text attributes by sampling type.

• Wrap type around a graphic.

• Reshape text with a warp.

• Create type on a path and shapes.

• Create text outlines.

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This lesson takes approximately an hour to complete. If needed, remove the previous lesson folder from your hard disk and copy the Lesson07 folder onto it.

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