Drag & Drop Text into place holder while Matching style. Possible?

Is it possible to drag text into a placeholder text box and have the dragged text assume the style of the placeholder text? I know that I can "paste and match style" which I use constantly but I am trying to build a template for other people to use and would love for them to simply be able to drag & drop text into a template. It seems like this would be the default behavior for a template but it does not seem to be.
Am I missing something obvious?
-joey
G5 Quad Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Eric Brooks wrote:
I either have to select, copy, and then paste matching formatting, or drag, drop and then reformat the text from the styles. Is there any way I can drag and drop so that the text being dropped picks up the formatting of the place holder I'm dropping it into? It seems to me that this is what a placeholder should be for.
Am I missing something?
Perhaps the fact that the definition of placeholder is not the same for you and for the Pages designers
Seriously, I think that you hit a design flaw. Here we are end users trying to help end users. We are unable to change the program behavior.
_Go to "Provide Pages Feedback" in the "Pages" menu_, describe what you wish.
Then, cross your fingers, and wait _at least_ for iWork'09
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 19 juin 2008 21:23:23)

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