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todd.guilmette
todd.guilmette
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June 18, 2019
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Copy paste text styles like MS Word?

  • June 18, 2019
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Hello, Can't figure this out:

I want to be able to copy and paste just text format from one letter to another IN THE SAME TEXT LAYER.

Can this be done?

It will save me a lot of time with something I am doing if I don't have to apply text and color styles 20 times here.

Thanks.

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      Barb Binder
      Community Expert
      Barb BinderCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      June 18, 2019

      Hi Todd:

      There isn't a copy styles function in Photoshop, but you can save your text formatting as either a Character Style (or Paragraph Style) and apply it to other text in that same file.

      ~Barb

      ~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
      todd.guilmette
      todd.guilmetteAuthor
      New Participant
      June 18, 2019

      Hi, I tried that, but when I put a new style in, it won't apply to just one letter, just the whole text layer.  I'm trying to make a sort of drop cap, where the first letter of every word is a different font.

      todd.guilmette
      todd.guilmetteAuthor
      New Participant
      June 19, 2019

      Hi Todd:

      • In Adobe Photoshop, Ctrl+Y is the shortcut for View > Proof Colors, and—to the best of my knowledge—it has always been Ctrl+Y.
      • In Microsoft Word, Ctrl+Y will repeat the last action. I think maybe you are confusing the two applications.

      Here is how a character style can solve this for you:

      ~Barb


      Hi, thanks for your animation.  My program isn't behaving like that.  When I select a letter, the character style does not default to "None", and when I select a letter and click on the new style, nothing happens.

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