Copy Paragraph Style doesn't do its job all the time.

It is possible that the sentence you copied from is not all one style so there is not a clean style to copy from.

Peter

I am not sure I completely understand what you are describing, but I may be able to clarify a few points.

Pasting a paragraph style should apply it to every paragraph containing the current selection. That is, for example, if you select from the middle of one paragraph to the middle of the next, then paste a paragraph style, it should apply from the beginning of the first selected paragraph to the end of the next, because, naturally enough, paragraph styles apply to entire paragraphs. If you only want to apply a style to a smaller selection, you have to use character styles.

Text color and italics are really character style elements; while a paragraph style will include character style elements, it will only include them from the first character in the selection used to define the paragraph style (a selection may include many character styles, but a paragraph style can only have one, so it uses the first).

Jeff

Sometimes the style won't apply to the target paragraph because the target also has a mix of styles.

In those cases it is always better to have made a named style in the Styles Drawer and force it onto the target by double clicking the style name. eg Heading 1

Peter

The button for Copy style or paste style is not working. So I tested it using a numbered list with paragraphs.

First:

I went to text I wanted to match to others, used the menu bar and drop-down lists for "Format" / "copy character style". Then I went to the other ordered list and selected the new text and used the drop-down list "format" / "paste character style" and it worked... Matched font, size, color etc.

Second:

I repeated the above steps but instead of using the drop-down lists on the menu bar, I used the button on the tool bar called "Copy Style" and "Paste Style". Note: in the past using these buttons has worked, I have used them all the time, but for some reason, it is now not working.

So when I did the same thing, hit "copy style" button I checked the drop-down list to see if "copy character style" was not greyed out and it wasn't. I then selected the new text to change, and hit "paste style" the button. Nothing happened but it changed the ordered list level (which did not match the original text level) So I checked the drop-down menu to see if I could even hit "paste character style" and sure enough, it was not even an option, it only had "paste paragraph style". Even though prior, when using the drop-down menu for "copy character style" the option for "paste character style" was available... So something is wrong with the buttons for the "copy style" and "paste style".... They worked in the past, and now they are not... it was just a lot easier to use the buttons versus having to navigate though drop-down menus.

The buttons only copy paragraph styles and if there is a mix of styles in the paragraph they don't know what to copy.

Whereas the menu items have both copy paragraph and character styles.

If you look to the right of the menu items they have keyboard shortcuts. Use those to speed up the copy/paste.

Using copy and paste styles is bad practice, creating inconsistencies which you can't fix universally as you can with using named styles in the Styles Drawer. You can also apply f-keys to named styles which further speeds up the styling process and maintains consistency.

Peter