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• • April 2, 2015 at 12:21 pm #74334
    drummingmatt

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    I’m working on a newsletter template and would like for text copy-pasted into a frame to be formatted according to my predefined paragraph styles (headline, body, italic). I have linked the paragraph styles and instructed the object style (“BLURB”) to apply next style, but when I copy-paste content into the text frame, the type is formatted only according to the first paragraph style (headline). I am able apply the final formatting by cycling the object style of the frame in question off and then back into BLURB, but this project is for a client who is not very tech-savvy and I would like the template to automatically apply the consecutive paragraph styles to the text.

    Can anyone offer insight on this?

  • April 2, 2015 at 5:55 pm #74347
    Alan Gilbertson

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    Rather than applying the object style and then pasting the text, you could start with a simple text frame and then apply the object style.

    To make this easy for your non-savvy client, assign a keyboard shortcut to the object style and tell the client “Paste the content, press Escape then [keyboard shortcut].”

    That should be easy to memorize and easy for the client to build into muscle memory so it becomes second nature.

  • April 3, 2015 at 7:23 am #74364
    Scott Falkner

    Member

    Even better, paste with no text frame active. The text will be pasted into a new text frame, which will be selected and ready for the shortcut. Two steps: Command V then shortcut.

  • April 3, 2015 at 12:52 pm #74389
    drummingmatt

    Member

    Thanks for the notes guys.

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