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When using the Test Shading Styles palette, this is generally determined by what you
selected before choosing a text shading style to apply, with a few exceptions.
• If you select the Paragraph button and then apply text shading, the text shading
is applied to the complete paragraph even if text was previously selected.
• If you select the Text button and then apply text shading, the text shading is
applied to the selected text. If text was not selected then the text shading will
begin at the cursor and the shading will be visible as you start typing.
This is what applying text shading to selected text looks like. it appears that the shading
is applied to each line individually, with the frame around each line:
This is what applying text shading to an entire paragraph looks like:
You can choose to shade an entire paragraph and then shade selected text within that
paragraph:
Format painter
Format Painter allows you to copy formatting that is applied to one piece of text and
apply it to others. The Format Painter will copy and apply all formatting that has been
applied to that text including any applied style sheets (paragraph and character).
To use the Format Painter:
1
Select the text with the desired formatting.
2
Select the Format Painter in the Home or Character/Character Attributes tab
of the Measurements palette.
3
Select the text that you wish to apply the desired formatting to.
IMPORTANT: Whether format painter applies only character formatting in addition
to paragraph formatting is determined by the original selection; if you select a few
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