Is there an Anthony Hughes video about working with Paragraph Styles?
There is one for Text styles, but google only returns that video when paragraph styles is searched.
What is it that you want to know more about?
Many of the principles will be the same.
Perhaps this Discover Dorico session on title pages will be helpful?
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Thank you for responding, Ms. Harris.
If you note registration changes on a score, it would be helpful for them to have a distinctive style. I was hoping to use paragraph text to achieve this. I defined a style to be Registration Changes.
After setting it up, I tried to apply it to a text area in an existing score.
I couldn’t get it to work, so I tried to find a Dorico video explaining all the aspects of the Paragraph Style feature to see what I had missed.
You can set a text item or text in a text frame to use a particular paragraph style using the text editor that pops up when you’re editing text inside either an item or frame, or via this method that allows you to change the style of multiple text items simultaneously:
This is how Dorico automatically formats the title on page 1 to be big and centered, but have the composer be smaller text and right-aligned.
However, the text formatting that comes from a paragraph won’t change in response to pitch changes or transposing etc. That comes from you editing the paragraph style manually in the Paragraph Styles dialog.
I understand how the paragraph styles work. When I highlight the text to be changed to a particular paragraph style, then select that paragraph style, nothing happens.
Yes, the style in question appears in the paragraph style dialogue list, it just doesn’t attach to the highlighted text.
That’s why I wanted to see Anthony do that operation.
Feel free to share your project for someone to look at.
The obvious follow-up is: in what ways is your new paragraph style formatted differently, so you can tell the difference?
Do check out the Discover Dorico session, as I’m pretty sure John uses paragraph styles and demonstrates how to use them in that session.
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Hi @jjtpiano, besides the suggestions by @Lillie_Harris, I made a short video to show the workflow (but of course you find those information on the linked official video), to explain it visually (although my voice is by far not so appealing as @Anthony_at_Steinberg or as @John_at_Steinberg 
):
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Thank you Ms. Harris. What I was looking for starts at 7:56. Following that example yields a successful result.
Thanks again!
-JT
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Christian:
Thank you for going to the trouble to make that video. You also answered another question I had as to how to change multiple text entries at the same time.
Let me share a trick I found out.
If you want your created template or paragraph styles to appear at the top of the selection list, preface each named paragraph style, say “Registration1” with “AA.”
You would name your styles “AA Registration 1” or “AA Registration 2” or “AA Whatever” and they will appear at the top of the list.
This is an old trick we used when we would buy Yellow Pages ads. We would put AA in front of the name of our company.
Hope you can use this.
-JT
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Thank you @jjtpiano for this helpful tip!
Yes I struggle sometimes to find my custom paragraph styles (even if they are displayed alphabetically, I forgot how I named them ) .
I normally put my initials at the beginning of the name, so they are at least grouped together. But the AA trick is nice!
When the menu is shown, you can also press the first letter of the paragraph style’s name on your keyboard, and the selection will jump to the first paragraph style that starts with that letter. This can make it easier to navigate to the rough area at least where you’ll find your style.
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Oh. Just like with fonts.
Thanks.
That’ll work, Christian!