> F2 shows and hides the PP. and if everything goes well, in the (near?) > future, there will be some big changes to the PP which will solve your > current problem!
Yes but the properties palette is still "the wrong tool" for this task IMO. When editing text in a text frame the tool to apply different styles should be more easily accessible. I don't know why keyboard shortcuts don't work... Tried both in the story editor and editing text frame and no success. > yep, i don't think that 1.3.5 is ready for prouctive work. but it would > be nice if you could make a report of the reasons why you think you > can't use it for your work! It's not that it can not be used, it is that it makes things to time consuming. I'm a little spoiled by using MS Office where I can easily create sutable shortcuts, apply different styles or direct formatting using combo boxes, easily apply formatting using keyboard etc. > i guess that the best solution would be an item "new character style > from selection" (i wonder how the label could be shortened...) for the > context menu in the edit styles list... > if you agree, could you post a feature request in the bug tracker? I think it would be better to be able to let a character style inherit from the character part of a paragraph style. Imagine you have a "body text" paragraph style. The you maybe want "body text bold" and "body text italic" cahracter styles for that. It doesn't make sense so make a "body text" character style first, then let the paragraph style and the two other character styles inherit from it. Because the "body text" character style would never be used in the document (because the "body text" paragraph style is used in those places). /Peter
