Copy text attributes using shortcut in ID CS 4!

Hi!
I want to copy text attributes using shortcut keys. Is it possible? It is possible in MX Freehand.
Here, I want to copy attribute (Magenta colour) and apply to another word (Magenta colour).
Thanks.

You use the Eyedropper too for this. The shortcut is i, unmodified, so you can’t call it while editing text. But you can click on the tool. You then click once to load the eyedropper with the desired formatting, then click wherever you want it applied. Click and Drag, like selecting text, to apply formatting to a word or words. I have not tried editing the shortcut so it can be called while editing text, but you can try. Go to Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts, and go to Tool under Product Area.

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Turn off the text layers and save the layout etc. as eps or pdf, and open whichever one you choose in Illustrator.
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I am editing long documents for work. I have applied paragraph and character styles to all of my copy. I'd like to use the eyedropper tool to apply these said styles, but everytime I go to copy a text attribute the eyedropper appears "Full" as if it has copied the desired attributes. However, when I go to apply the attributes to other text, nothing happens. I am still in the trial version of the CS5 Suite on a PC running XP. Anybody out there know what's going on?
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1. Highlight the text you want to change with the text tool.
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3. Use the eyedropper to click on the format you want the text to be.
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2. Click on the text with the format you want.
3. Use the eyedropper to highlight the text you want changed.
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Back in the Xpress days, there was a key command which allowed you to click on a para of text, holding a combo of keys pressed, then click onto different para of text and the style attributes of the former would be taken by the latter.
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If you apply a character style to the text first (say if you have "this text is supposed to be bold"
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Thank You Jochem
I was trying to understand how I could do things as simple as inserting text that I had previously copied. Since there are neither command menüs nor buttons for the Insert of previously copied text, I was trying a mouse right click.....and was being offered in the context menu the choice between "Insert Link", "Insert Image", "Alignement", and "Insert Table"....... but no possibility of a plain insert of previously copied text.
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Thank you again Jochem for your patience with me.

Copy text attributes using shortcut in ID CS 4!

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