Copy Text Formatting - Mac Tips Daily! #296

Did you know with Mac OS X tiger, you can take some formatted text in a Cocoa application, like TextEdit, and copy the formatting attributes from one section of a document to another?

It's very useful if you need to copy the formatting quickly.

Let's get to it:

1. First, open a Cocoa based application with some text that you want to edit.

2. Select the text with the attributes you want to copy.

and press COMMAND-OPTION-C

3. Now, select the text to apply these attributes to.

4. Now press
COMMAND-OPTION-V and your formatting will be applied to the selected text.

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