Hello,

Things are progressing well with my relearning of PG.

I am impressed what I can do with it so far.

I have come up to a task that seems like something easy, but I cannot
figure it out.

If I have a text that is:

Helvetica
Bold
Green
Italics

Like is Microsoft Word or OpenOffice, is there a way that I can
highlight the text, and "copy" the attributes, and then apply it to a
new text that I am working on?

Thanks

Joseph

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Hi Joe,

On Feb 23, 2012, at 2:57 PM, Joe Hogan wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Things are progressing well with my relearning of PG.
>
> I am impressed what I can do with it so far.
>
> I have come up to a task that seems like something easy, but I cannot
> figure it out.
>
> If I have a text that is:
>
> Helvetica
> Bold
> Green
> Italics
>
> Like is Microsoft Word or OpenOffice, is there a way that I can
> highlight the text, and "copy" the attributes, and then apply it to a
> new text that I am working on?

The eye dropper tool IIRC. Click once on the text you want to copy attributes from, then again where you want them to apply.

I'd recommend instead of doing that to use the style palette to create a new style from current and then apply that style to text.

Tim Doty

>

On 2/23/2012 5:19 PM, Tim Doty wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
> On Feb 23, 2012, at 2:57 PM, Joe Hogan wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Things are progressing well with my relearning of PG.
>>
>> I am impressed what I can do with it so far.
>>
>> I have come up to a task that seems like something easy, but I
>> cannot figure it out.
>>
>> If I have a text that is:
>>
>> Helvetica Bold Green Italics
>>
>> Like is Microsoft Word or OpenOffice, is there a way that I can
>> highlight the text, and "copy" the attributes, and then apply it to
>> a new text that I am working on?
>
> The eye dropper tool IIRC. Click once on the text you want to copy
> attributes from, then again where you want them to apply.
>
> I'd recommend instead of doing that to use the style palette to
> create a new style from current and then apply that style to text.
>
I would, too, unless you have whole paragraphs to change. The eyedropper
too changes whole paragraphs. OTOH, if you use styles then if you change
the style every portion to which you assigned the style will change at once.

It would be nice for me if the eyedropper tool changed selected text
rather than whole paragraphs, but that's just me.

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