Setting styles

Style is a combination of fonts and colors, set through the Font and Color panels.

  1. Open the Font panel by clicking on the Font toolbar item or choosing Format ‣ Show Fonts ⌘T.
  2. Open the Color panel by clicking on the Color toolbar item or choosing Format ‣ Show Colors ⇧⌘C.

Change all styles, quickly

A particular style is easy to change everywhere it is used. Select some styled text and Control-click over it to open the contextual menu. Choose the ‣ Select submenu and one of the following:

  1. Select Styles Like: Matches the same font, color, and decorations everywhere it appears.
  2. Select Colors Like: Matches the same colors (including highlight) everywhere it appears.
  3. Select Paragraphs Like: Matches the same paragraphs properties of the selection's paragraph everywhere it appears. Helpful if you use specific alignment or line-spacing for certain readers in a script.
  4. Select Text + Style Exactly: Matches the style and text exactly as selected. Helpful if you repeat a style but want to restrict your selection to specific text, as well.

Once your selection is made, you can use the Font and Color panels to modify the styles for all selections.

Copy and paste styles

Text styles can be copied and pasted to quickly format a document. Select text and choose Format ‣ Copy Style ⌥⌘C to copy its style. Make another text selection and choose Format ‣ Paste Style ⌥⌘V to apply the copied style. Style information includes fonts, colors, line spacing, ligatures, and kerning. If your selection has multiple fonts or colors, the first value is one that is used.

Paste and match style

Sometimes it's useful to paste content and have it match the style that currently exists. Choosing Edit ‣ Paste and Match Style ⌥⇧⌘V pastes your content on the clipboard and gives it the style of the current selection.

Apply default style

Apply the default document style set in General preferences to a document by choosing Format ‣ Document ‣ Apply Default Style ⇧⌘A. By default, the "Apply default style to imported documents" preference in General preferences performs this automatically and can be turned off, if desired.