Changing the paragraph style of text

You can change the paragraph style that is applied to text added to staves and within individual text frames, including on master pages. For example, if you want to use one paragraph style for page numbers in full score layouts and another for page numbers in part layouts.

Prerequisite

You have created a new paragraph style if you want to use a different paragraph style to the ones provided by default.

Procedure

  1. Optional: If you want to change the paragraph style of text on a master page, open the master page editor.
  2. Open the text editor for the text/text frame in which you want to change the paragraph style in any of the following ways:

    • Activate Frames in the Formatting panel, select the text frame, and press Return.

    • Double-click within the text frame.

  3. Select the text whose paragraph style you want to change.
    Tip

    You can apply different paragraph styles to separate paragraphs in the same text frame.

  4. In the text editor pop-up, select a paragraph style.
  5. Close the text editor in any of the following ways:

    • Press Esc or Ctrl/Cmd-Return.

    • Click outside of the text editor.

Result

The paragraph style of the selected paragraphs is changed. For example, if you select a single word, the whole paragraph containing that word is changed.