Using text styles

Text styles can be applied to text within your designs for efficiency and consistency.

About text styles

A text style is a set of one or more attributes which can be applied to text in bulk. Later, if you chose to modify a text style, any text which uses that style will update to conform to the changes you've made.

Every new document comes with a default set of text styles but the Text Styles panel provides you with the ability to create and manage a document's text styles as well as remove them.

Applying text styles

Text styles can be applied to text using the Text Styles, Paragraph or Character panels, the context toolbar or a custom keyboard shortcut.

Furthermore, if you have established a strict order for your text styles, using Next Style, you can apply an entire set of text styles to a story (or portion of a story) in one go.

If local formatting has been applied, this can be quickly removed using the Text Styles panel, leaving the currently applied text styles in place.

Artistic Text Tool Frame Text Tool Paragraph text style To apply a text style to a paragraph:
  1. With the Artistic Text Tool or Frame Text Tool selected, click inside a paragraph or drag to select multiple paragraphs.
  2. Do one of the following:
    • On the context toolbar, select a text style from the Paragraph Style pop-up menu.
    • On the Paragraph panel, select a text style from the Paragraph Style pop-up menu.
    • On the Text Style panel, select a paragraph text style.
    • Use a custom keyboard shortcut.
Artistic Text Tool Frame Text Tool Character text style To apply a text style to a sentence, word or character:
  1. With the Artistic Text Tool or Frame Text Tool selected, select a portion of text.
  2. Do one of the following:
    • On the context toolbar, select a text style from the Character Style pop-up menu.
    • On the Character panel, select a text style from the Character Style pop-up menu.
    • On the Text Style panel, select a character text style.
    • Use a custom keyboard shortcut.
Artistic Text Tool Frame Text Tool Options menu To apply ordered text styles to a story:
  1. With the Artistic Text Tool or Frame Text Tool selected, select multiple paragraphs.
  2. On the Text Styles panel, click on a listed style's options menu and select Apply ... Then Next Styles.
Artistic Text Tool Frame Text Tool Reapply text styles To remove local formatting:
  1. With the Artistic Text Tool or Frame Text Tool selected, select a portion of text.
  2. On the Text Style panel, select Reapply Text Styles.

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