Illustrator question: selecting multiple text

[Casey Burns]

yeah, why the hell isn't this possible?
i just had to layout an entire magazine of interviews where i had to italicize the interviewer's questions and there was no way to select multiple blocks of text at the same time. WTF.

[EMILY09]

MAYBE WE SHOULD TRY ANOTHER WAY

[Hrabovsky]

Do one word manually. Then you can pick up the style with the Eye Dropper and then use the dropper to apply it to individual letters, words, lines, etc., by dragging the dropper across the character(s) you want to change while holding down OPTION.

Or you could have just selected words and modify them individually, which would have taken less time than it does to read this thread.

+

Burns, if you're laying text out in Illustrator for a magazine piece, that is lame and you have my condolences. InDesign or Quark will let you assign paragraph and character styles that you can then map to keyboard commands. I do it everyday.

[IVARTON]

no

[austininin]

actually that is a good option—pretty fast. thanks!

[the hipoisie]

Illustrator does have character and paragraph styles, but they're kind of whack (at least in CS3). Whenever I've tried to use them I recall having to do lots of double clicking and getting a + after the style even when I haven't changed anything. I don't understand why Adobe can get a feature to work great in one program and be nearly unusable in another.

[dspring]

Do one word manually. Then you can pick up the style with the Eye Dropper and then use the dropper to apply it to individual letters, words, lines, etc., by dragging the dropper across the character(s) you want to change while holding down OPTION.

awesome... never knew about that... no more switching tools or going into the text appearance box