Tutorial
Apply an Imported Stylesheet to the Master Page Text

You already know two ways to specify type-with individual commands from the Format and Text menus and with the Type Specs command. Now you'll learn a third way, using stylesheets.

A stylesheet is a set of type specifications that you name and store as part of a document. Once you create a stylesheet, you can use it to format text. Then if you change the stylesheet, all the text you formatted with that stylesheet is updated automatically to match the new specifications. By using stylesheets in this way, you ensure that all the text elements in your pages match the latest version of your type specs.

Stylesheets are also useful for maintaining consistent type specs across a number of documents. You can import stylesheets from other documents in much the same way as you import glossaries.
The Bulletin Templates document from which you imported an object glossary also contains a number of stylesheets. One of those stylesheets contains the specifications for the text that you typed on the left master page.

  1. Choose Select All from the Edit menu.

  2. Choose Styles from the Document menu. The Styles dialog box appears.

  3. Click Import and then double-click Bulletin Templates in the Tutorial Folder. All the stylesheets in the Bulletin Templates document are imported. Their names appear in the list in the Styles dialog box. The Master Page Text stylesheet is selected in the list.

  4. Click Apply and click Done. The specifications in the Master Page Text stylesheet are applied to the text: 12-point Helvetica Bold, condensed 85%, in PANTONE®* 1795 CV, on 14 points leading, aligned right.