Quickly Apply FrameMaker Paragraph and Character Formats
This tip comes from Barbara Binder, president and founder of Rocky Mountain Training, your trainer for next month’s Adobe FrameMaker 8 virtual class:
You can easily apply paragraph and character formats in FrameMaker by using the Paragraph and Character catalogs. However, using the catalogs can be very "mouse" intensive. And if the list of formats in your FrameMaker documents is extensive, you’ll find that it’s not practical to constantly scroll through the list of formats.
Instead, consider this time-saving keyboard shortcut:
- If you would like to apply a paragraph format called Zed to a paragraph, click in the paragraph and, on your keyboard, press [F9] to display the first format on the paragraph catalog in the lower left of your window
- Press the z key on your keyboard to select the Zed format
- Press ENTER on your keyboard to apply the Zed format to the paragraph
Note: You could apply a character format called Zed using a similar technique… except instead of pressing [F9] to display the first format on the paragraph catalog, press [F8] to display the first format on the character catalog.