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

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

Procedure

  1. Optional: If you want to change the paragraph style of text on a master page, open the master page editor.
  2. Double-click the text frame whose paragraph style you want to change to open the text editor.
  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. Select a paragraph style from the paragraph style menu in the text editor.
  5. Press Esc or Ctrl/Cmd-Return to close 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.