Copying and pasting text inserts

Hi all,
When creating certain projects, I like to use the same font size, colour, style etc throughout the whole project. So I would love to be able to copy a text insert and then paste it many times into other parts of the project, thereby only having to change the text content. At the moment I can't seem to be able to do this and its a bit frustrating having to set up each text insert from scratch every time.
Years ago I used an old Windows-based video editing package called 'Arcsoft'. It is light years behind iMovie in so many respects but it did allow you to copy and paste text inserts which was really helpful.
Can anyone advise me? Is there something I am missing?
Thanks, Guy

Yep, it's a feature that Apple announced called "Intelligent Text Selection". It's supposed to make it easier to copy columns of paragraphs of text from a multi-column document and keep the paragraphs in the right order when pasted into a new document.
It works perfectly if you actually have a newsletter or other multi-column document and want the paragraphs to stay in order. You are seeing an unintended result. The new "Advanced Artificial Intelligence" is not properly analyzing your document.
Intelligent text selection has been added in Preview. This has to do with the app's ability to select text in PDFs. In the current version of Mac OS X, selecting text in PDFs is not always logical. For example, if you have three text columns and just need to select the text in one of them, you may not be able to do it. "Advanced artificial intelligence" included with Snow Leopard "analyzes each PDF document to understand the structure of its words, paragraphs, columns, and visual layout and create a map of the document’s organization," Apple reveals. "Preview uses this information to help you accurately target the text you want to copy and paste, even if the text is in columns."
It would be nice to be able to turn this 'feature' off:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

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