A Couple Questions

[Jeremy Reichman]

Liz,

I didn't see that others had answered this, so I'll take a stab at it.

First, I would set up a style you like:

1.	Change the styling of a some text in the outline window.

2.	Select that text and choose Format menu > Copy Font (Command-3) to 
copy the styling. (This is a general menu command for saving the 
formatting of text in a number of native Mac OS X programs, and it's 
quite handy!)

You can then open the Info palette (Format menu > Show Info) and set 
the style for an individual level of your outline. In practice, I find 
this works best if I've already got two or more levels in my outline.

1.	Expand the Row Levels section of the Info palette if it's not 
expanded.

2.	Highlight the row of the style -- from the Styles list in the Info 
palette -- whose appearance you want to change.

3.	Select Format menu > Paste Font (Command-4). The style is applied to 
all items in that level in your outline.


Unfortunately, I don't think OO allows you to paste just plain, 
unformatted text, if your clipboard contains formatted text (as Mail 
often generates).

So, copying text from another application may still override the 
styling. I sometimes do the following in the Terminal, because I have 
it open so much (never would have guessed that, having come from Mac OS 
9, but it can be handy):

%  pbpaste | cat | pbcopy

That is just a few commands strung together that strip the rich text 
formatting from pasted data. It actually uses the "pasteboard" command 
line equivalents for paste and copy. You enter everything after the % 
sign. It's basically a Terminal-ized way to "Paste as plain text." It 
shouldn't be to hard to make an AppleScript equivalent, if someone 
wanted to try.

HTH.


On Mar 30, 2004, at 8:30 AM, Liz Pfeffer wrote:

> B) With the same document, I'd like to apply styles to each level. I 
> can set the font for each level, but it isn't applied to the outline 
> -- I have to change each section manually. Then, when I copy some new 
> text into the outline (from Mail), it retains the styling from Mail -- 
> again, I have to change the style by hand.