Bold Shortcut???

[Gwinnwaobilo]

Ok I know that the bold Shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+B but it doesnt work.... It wont work on any of the 20 odd pc's I have in the office here...

Is there a way to make it work?
Is there a way to make a new shortcut that will work?

So frustrating...

Thanks!!!

Gwin

 

[eugenetyson]

Well InDesign does not work the same way as MS Word. It won't just bold any font. Simply because Word bastarises the type for some fonts, basically causing them to have jaggy edges and not a smooth version of the bold.

What you need to ensure is that the BOLD option is available for that particular font.

For example, Edwardian Script has no bold option. You can't bold it. Unless you put a stroke on the text of approx. .15pts anything more and you're getting yourself into text problems, by the way I don't recommend stroking text to make it bold.

The only way around this is to either buy the complete font family set, which could include,Light, Light Condensed, Medium, Medium Condensed, Regular, Regular Condensed, Bold and Black, each one with a Italic, Bold Italic and Roman version of that font.

If you can't buy the font or you don't have the font option, then you can research the font and find out what other fonts look like this font, what can be used as a substitute etc.

But basically, if the keyboard shortcut won't pick up bold when you press CTRL SHIFT B then more than likely that font does not have BOLD in the family of the font that you have, it may exist though, which you would have to buy.

Another thing would be a font like META and METAPLUS, where there seems to be an endless amount of this particular font family. Which is and can be frustrating, because the METAPLUS would have ITALIC and ROMAN, but it wouldn't the BOLD, so you use the font METAPLUS BOLD, which has an ITALIC version of the BOLD but no ROMAN, just regular.

So you'll really have to explore what fonts you have, and if it's available from the dropdown menu under the fonts in the control panel of InDesign (which is just under where FILE EDIT LAYOUT TYPE etc are at the top of the screen).

Hope this helps.

Eugene