Applying Paragraph & Character Styles
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Learn how to effectively apply paragraph and character styles in your documents, using both the Paragraph & Character Style Panels and the Quick Apply feature.
Using Quick Apply to Apply Styles
While Quick Apply can be used to quickly access InCopy features such as menu items, one great use of Quick Apply is to find and apply styles based on their names. Using keyboard shortcuts, you can narrow a list of styles down to the one you want and apply it. Here’s how:
Select some text you want to style.
Press Command–Return (Mac) or Control–Enter (Windows) to open Quick Apply. The Quick Apply panel will appear.
Start typing the name of a style. For instance:
Type by to get to the byline style.
Type nam to get to the author name style. (See how it doesn’t have to be the beginning of the style name!)
NOTE: Notice that styles are not the only things listed in the Quick Apply panel? If you want to limit the list to only paragraph styles type p: before the name, or c: for character styles.
Press Return (Mac) or Enter (Windows) to apply that style.