A current project has many dozens of captions superimposed over video.

After starting out yellow with grey outline, the client now wants them all light blue with dark blue outline. I've been trying to find the quickest way to change them all, but there doesn't seem to be a way of selecting all then changing the colour in one event, hoping it might flow through ...

So, I've come up with the following workflow, which is "semi-automated" and takes about 8 seconds per generated text event. It may be useful to others, but I'd also be happy to hear if there is indeed a faster way ...

1. Create a blue font event and save it as a preset. Create as many presets as there are screen positions, e.g. "Blue Top", "Blue Centre", "Blue bottom".

This saves the actual text as well as the settings, so ...

2. Open an existing text event that requires changing, highlight the text and Ctrl C to copy.

3. From the preset dropdown, select the appropriate template, say Blue bottom.
This replaces the previous text with the preset text, but it is now the right colour and position.

4. Highlight the text and Ctrl V to paste back the original text, which now has the correct colouring etc.