In this week’s InDesignSecrets video, David Blatner demos how to format a text chat. Using the power of the Find/Change dialog box and integrating paragraph styles, he quickly creates the look and feel of text chat bubbles.
Download the sample file to work with here.
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This article was last modified on August 29, 2025
This article was first published on August 21, 2019
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