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242 USING INDESIGN
Typography
Last updated 11/16/2011
Copy type attributes (Eyedropper)
You can use the Eyedropper tool to copy type attributes such as character, paragraph, fill, and stroke settings, and then
apply those attributes to other type. By default, the Eyedropper tool copies all type attributes. To customize the
attributes you want to copy with the Eyedropper tool, use the Eyedropper Options dialog box.
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“ Apply colors using the Eyedropper tool ” on page 468
Copy type attributes to unselected text
1 With the Eyedropper tool , click the text that is formatted with the attributes you want to copy. (The text can be
in another open document.) The eyedropper pointer reverses direction, and appears full , to indicate that it’s
loaded with the attributes you copied. When you position the eyedropper pointer over text, an I-beam appears next
to the loaded eyedropper
.
2 With the Eyedropper tool, select the text you want to change.
The selected text takes on the attributes loaded in the eyedropper. As long as the Eyedropper tool is selected, you can
continue to select text to apply formatting.
3 To deselect the Eyedropper tool, click another tool.
To clear the formatting attributes currently held by the eyedropper tool, press Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS)
while the Eyedropper tool is loaded. The Eyedropper tool reverses direction and appears empty
, to indicate that
it’s ready to pick up new attributes. Click an object containing the attributes you want to copy, and then drop the new
attributes on another object.
The eyedropper is clicked on formatted text to copy its formatting (left), and then dragged across unformatted text (middle) to apply that
formatting (right).
If you use the Eyedropper tool to copy a paragraph style from text in one document to text in another, and the
paragraph style has the same name but different sets of attributes, any style differences will appear as local overrides
to the destination style.
Copy type attributes to selected text
1 With the Type tool or Path Type tool , select the text to which you want to copy attributes.
2 Using the Eyedropper tool , click the text from which you want to copy attributes. (The text from which you
want to copy attributes must be in the same InDesign document as the text you want to change.) The Eyedropper
tool reverses direction and appears full
, to indicate that it’s loaded with the attributes you copied. The attributes
are applied to the text you selected in step 1.
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