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June 24, 2009
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Type tool - Multiple commands

  • June 24, 2009
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Is there a tool for editing multiple words in a paragraph at the same time? Example to add bold, italics, change the color or change the font to certain words in that particular paragraph?

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    Ramón G Castañeda
    Inspiring
    June 28, 2009

    My impression is that anyone wishing for this functionality in Photoshop is using the wrong application.

    Inspiring
    June 24, 2009

    You don't say what program you're doing the formatting in, nor what platform you're using, so that makes an answer rather difficult.

    Very very few programs support selection of multiple, separate bits of text within the same block of text.

    However, a number of programs, such as Adobe InDesign, support character styles. You would want to set up a character style with all the formatting attributes you want to apply, and then you could apply it to the selected words one at a time, and they would automatically pick up the formatting you want.

    The styling paintbrush in Microsoft Word can also be used to apply a bunch of different formatting parameters all at once, though again only to one continuous piece of text at a time.

    Regards,

    T

    June 24, 2009

    OK for example...InDesign. Is there a tool that you can select SPECIFIC words to effect...as opposed to the whole paragraph?  thanks

    June 24, 2009

    This is an example of what I mean in Photoshop. For selecting multiple words in the same paragraph. It would be nice if this tool existed. For example when you have the text tool selected, you should be able to hold shift and select multiple words.