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From Elisabetta Bruno, for About.com

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Change the Character Style Options for Quick Changes Throughout

Change the Character Style Options for Quick Changes Throughout

Change the Character Style Options for Quick Changes Throughout

Illustration by E. Bruno
Select the text that you want to apply your Character Style to and then simply click on your new Charcter Style. You can see the result of the Character Style that I have applied in the illustration, below (larger version).

Just as an informative note, should you change the formatting on any parts of text where you applied a Character Style, you will see a + just before the name of the style when you click on that text. If you want all of the parts of texts where you have applied the Character Style to change in one go, right click on the Character Style you want to change and, when the contextual menu appears, choose Edit (name of the Character Style) and then change your options there.

Even though the type of formatting is different, the Paragraph Styles work the same way as the Character Styles. Once you understand how one works, it won't be difficult to understand how the other one works too.

These steps apply to QuarkXPress on both Windows and Macintosh.

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