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Rob Ehle
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January 8, 2019
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Must now select complete ¶ to copy formatting with eyedropper

  • January 8, 2019
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To copy paragraph formatting from one paragraph to another, I used only to have to click once in the source format and click once again anywhere in the paragraph I wanted to re-format. Suddenly today, I'm having to paint across the entire paragraph, as if I'm copying formats on the character level.

  • I double-clicked on the tool to see if there were any choices I'd changed—which I knew I hadn't done and there were none. "Paragraph style" was left unchecked, everything else was checked.
  • I quit the application and re-opened it. Not fixed

If anyone can think of anything I'm missing here, I'll be most grateful.

Thanks.

Rob

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BobLevine
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BobLevineCommunity Expert
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January 8, 2019

This is what paragraph styles are for.

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Rob EhleAuthor
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January 8, 2019

I'm not sure I'm following you, Bob. 

With paragraph styles checked or unchecked in the eyedropper, I'm still having the same trouble. I single-click anywhere in the source paragraph to load the eyedropper, then single-click in the target paragraph to apply the formatting. This used to apply the source paragraph's formatting to the target paragraph. Maybe more specifically, the source character's: if there was different character formatting within the source paragraph (such as bold, or lower case), the whole target paragraph would take the format of wherever the cursor was when I clicked in the source.

Now, a single click in the target does nothing. A double-click selects a word and formats that, a triple-click selects a line. With or without paragraph styles selected in the eyedropper options.

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