Changing font but keeping sizes and styles

[dorayme]

If you have various text (mostly in one font but not in same sizes or
styles) in many text boxes in a work in progress but you decide you
want all text in one font and different to what any of them at present
are, and if the new chosen font supports all the sizes and styles, how
do you do this quickly?

Select all and changing font seems to require one to choose a style.
At least in CS4 on a Mac. And then go about restoring the styling you
had before (like bold for some headings etc). I am suspecting there
might be a way? Anyone know it?

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dorayme

[hank]

Try paragraph and character style sheets; What you want to do seems to
require paragraph styles that are based on others, like (in Indesign):
Style 1 helvetica bold,
Style 2 (based on style 1) helvetica light.
Now if you change the font family, the change will cascade down thru the
related styles, but the bold or light styling will remain. Problem is,
you can't base style sheets on others in Illustrator, cause it's really
not a page layout program and at least as far as typography, it's a bit
limited. But the use of style sheets will make things a lot easier, just
a few more clicks in your case.

[dorayme]

In article <4f805e8b$0$14477$607e...@cv.net>,

Thanks for this. I will try this in a few days and report back. A few
more clicks is fine by me, having to select bits of text here and
there and individually change styles - as I have always done - is not!
<g>

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dorayme