Adobe InDesign/Selecting Text

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Expert: - 11/17/2011


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I feel like I must be missing something...Is there a way to select multiple pieces of text that are not adjacent to each other?  I want to select multiple sections of text and apply the same paragraph style to them, but I need to highlight and apply the style separately for each selection.  For example, in Word, CTRL +Click selects as many different words (non adjacent) as you'd like.  I can't figure out how to do that in InDesign.  Is there a trick??

Thank you,
Melissa

Answer
No, not exactly ... however this solution might be helpful:
1. Select the eyedropper tool
2. Click in a paragraph that has the desired style applied
3. Then click on another paragraph with the eyedropper to apply the same style to that paragraph
4. Just keep clicking on more paragraphs as many times as you like to apply the style

Of course that only works with whole paragraphs.

HTH

Pat

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My specialty is database publishing: using InDesign to produce publications such as catalogues, directories, price lists, classified ads etc. - anything that's based on data from a database or spreadsheet.

Experience

I have been working with page layout programs since the very first first of QuarkXPress back in .... 1987? I've worked with InDesign since it first came out and have helped many clients to create their publications using database publishing methods, and have written an application to streamline the process (CatBase).

Publications
As I used to be a journalist working for an international news agency (in a previous lifetime) I have been published in many publications around the world. As for technology writing: I was Editor-in-Chief of a Mscintosh magazine (MacGuide) and have written for various other publications on a freelance basis, such as The LA Weekly and InfoWorld.

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College: Certificate in computer programming and information Processing University: Post-graduate diploma in IT (Liverpool University)

Past/Present Clients
Barclays Bank, Stanley Tools, Europa Components, The American Chamber of Commerce to the EU (AmCham), and many others. My software (CatBase) has also been used by design firms to produce publications for such clients as Kellogg's, The English Tourist Board. and numerous others.

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