Format Painter in Pages?

In Pages you can assign and apply Styles for text. When you have defined a style you can by select text in other parts of the document just click on the style you want.

Read about in the Pages User Guide, downloadable from the Pages Help menu.

Also have a look here [Styles|http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=180&highligh t=style&mforum=iworktipsntrick] in iWorkTipsnTricks

Not having used the Copy style or Paste style buttons before I did a test now. They work perfectly in my Pages. I copied a style from a text and pasted it elsewhere in some other text. It changes font, font colour and font size as expected. 🙂

If it works in another way than in Numbers I don't know though.

Hi Jeff...
So much of Pages is really cool, but I totally agree with you. I've been trying hard to find that "Format Painter" function in Pages as well. It's so simple and straightforward...like using the eyedropper tool in Illustrator or Photoshop.

Have you had any luck yet?

fruhulda wrote:
In Pages you can assign and apply Styles for text. When you have defined a style you can by select text in other parts of the document just click on the style you want.

Read about in the Pages User Guide, downloadable from the Pages Help menu.

Also have a look here [Styles|http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=180&highlight=style& mforum=iworktipsntrick] in iWorkTipsnTricks

fruhulda that's quite a trick you have there with the Styles highlight.

Where did you get that from?

Peter

PeterBreis0807 wrote:

fruhulda that's quite a trick you have there with the Styles highlight.

Where did you get that from?

Peter

Do you mean the orange colour? I don't know. I just did a search in the forum and when opening the page all searched words had the colour! I didn't know it would stay in the link.
Maybe I have magical fingers 🙂

Jeff

We know what you are talking about.

Not something I recommend. It is the lazy way out of styling, that causes you more work in the long run, because after having busied yourself with Format Painting text all over your large document you suddenly notice you haven't been very consistent and now you want to change all instances of captions or quotes and get to do it all over again.

As a designer I get heaps of this stuff. First thing I do is remove all the styling from the text and do it properly.

Peter

Jeff - when you change application you have to forget how you did a special task before. Forget how you did it in MSW. It is the end result that matters.
If all apps did the same task the same way it should be enough with one app and not the many there are around.

How about downloading the Pages User guide, from the Help Menu in Pages, and see what can be done in Pages.

In Numbers, triggering the "Copy Style" button,
selecting an other piece of text
triggering the "Paste Style" button does exactly what it's supposed to achieve.

It doesn't in Pages so, from my point of view, there is a bug.

*Bug ID# 7989885*

Summary:

+In Pages, the Copy Style and Paste Style buttons seems to fail to do their job.+

+*Steps to Reproduce:*+

+Apply formatting attributes like font, size, bold, italic, color …+
+to a word+
+Select the word+
+trigger the Copy Style button.+

+Select an other word+
+trigger the Paste Style button.+

+*Expected Results:*+

+I assumed that, as this scheme does in Numbers, it would apply the attributes of the original word to the target one+

+*Actual Results:*+

+It changes nothing to the target word+

Regression:

+Copy two letters from the original word.+
+Paste just before (or just after) the piece of text whose attributes must be modified+
+Cut the piece of text+
+Put the cursor between the two styled letters+
+Paste and Match Style+
+Delete the two extraneous letters.+

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 16 mai 2010 14:23:47

stardust100

Most times it pays not to be short-sighted and go the extra step.

Format Painter may pick up direct styles and apply them but when you want to change this later you have no real Styles to change and get to do it all over again manually.

Make a Style from a sample and give it a keyboard shortcut. You won't regret that, but you will regret the painter method.

Peter

Hi Yvan...
Thank you so much for your helpful answer, and also for not being the least bit patronizing about it...

However I'm not sure where the "Copy Style" button is, not the "Paste Style" one. The only similar thing I see is "Paste and match style", under the edit menu.
Where are these 2 buttons you refer to?

Thanks!

I thought that maybe it's linked to localized version.
With the French one, it doesn't apply
tested under :
10.4.11
10.5.8
10.6.3
with Pages 4.0.3

I tested also with Pages running in English on my French system
Same odd behaviour.

So, as you say that it behaves well on your system, I guess that the problem is in in the localized system itself.

I added a few lines to my bug report :

+I just received an interesting message.+

+An user running the system and the app in Swedish said that on its machine copy style / paste style behave correctly.+

+My tests where made with :+
+10.4.11 in French+
+10.5.8 in French+
+10.6.3 in French+

+On the three systems, I ran Pages in French and Pages in English.+

+So, the problem may be in the localized OS, not in the app.+

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 17 mai 2010 11:44:13

It is probably the localization stuff as you say. I tried English version in Pages09 and it didn't work, Nor did it work in Pages08 which is in English as there is no Swedish version. All the time the System has been in Swedish.
I must add that colour didn't work even though bold, font etc. worked. I was wrong there the first time.

It's astounding.

To my knowledge, it's the first time with a localized version behaving better than the US one 😉


Added these lines to my report:

+Got a new message from the Swedish user.+

+(1) bold, italic, size are correctly treated on its Swedish version but color isn't+

+(2) she tested Pages in English on its Swedish system and got the odd behaviour which I get on my French system.+

+So, it appears that on this point the Swedish Pages version behave better than the English and the French ones ;-)+

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 17 mai 2010 12:23:31

Copy paragraph style Option-Command-C
Copy character style Option-Shift-Command-C

Paste character or paragraph style Option-Command-V
Paste and match style of destination text Option-Shift-Command-V