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Copying text appearances
It's easy to copy the style of any text to any other region of text using the Paste format/attributes
feature:
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Select the source region from where you want to copy the style. This can be as little as a word
(just double click).
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Select "Edit" > "Copy" ("Ctrl + C").
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Select the region of text to which you want to apply the style.
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Select "Edit" > "Paste format/attributes" ("Ctrl + ñ + A").
If you just have the text cursor positioned in some text when you Paste format/attributes
the paragraph attributes will be pasted to this paragraph.
If you have a region of text selected, then Paste format/attributes
will paste all the visual attributes of the source text.
Applying attributes to whole text stories
When you have the cursor in a simple or column text object, pressing "Esc" will select the whole text
object. You can then apply an attribute, say a color, and the whole text object is altered. This is often
quicker than performing "Select all" ("Ctrl + A").
With text areas this method only works if all text areas of the story are selected. You can do this in the
Selector Tool
clicking and "Shift + clicking" on the different text areas to select them. But this method is only possible if
the text areas are on a single page. If your text story flows over several pages and you want to change all
the text, then it's necessary to "Select all" ("Ctrl + A"), and then apply the required attributes.
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