Reply To: Dreamt of Character Rotation

Hank/Eugene: I have a feeling that I will often reply to posts on this forum with, “yes, but you can do that with the Blatner Tools plug-ins.” In fact, you can do this (if you have Blatner Tools installed):

1. Make a Bold character style (the “Create Basic Character Styles” feature in the character styles panel menu will do this for you)
2. Select it in the panel, right-click on it, and choose Add to Blatner Tools menu. Choose a slot (1-10) for it.
3. In the current free beta, you have to then go to the Keyboard Shortcuts panel to assign a shortcut; we're redesigning this so that the shortcut can be applied much easier, in step 2. But either way, apply Command-Shift-B (or whatever) to the Character Style 1 (or whatever slot you used) feature.

Now, when you press that shortcut, it will apply the character style instead of the local formatting!

(This was one of the first features in Blatner Tools that I specced… the ability to apply KBSC to styles is crucial for an efficient workflow!)