190: Thou shall learn to love the Eyedropper tool

Commentary I’ve been using Adobe InDesign since Version 2 but it took me a long time to realize how useful the Eyedropper tool is. I thought it simply stored the color of any object you click on, enabling you to fill another object or apply the same color to text, like it does in Adobe^® Photoshop^®. How wrong I was—you can copy type attributes, too. Click on an item of text, even some text in another document, then drag over another item of text with the Eyedropper, and bingo, it copies not just the color of the text but many additional stored attributes to the new selection. While it’s true that good practice dictates the use of style sheets for all text formatting, especially in long documents, there’s always a use for this functionality when you’re working on a one-off job like a poster or flyer, or when you’re experimenting with type styles prior to applying style sheets. Time to stop ignoring the Eyedropper tool, I think. TS