[whpalmer4]

Do you have OmniOutliner or OmniOutliner Pro? Pro has a feature called Named styles that allows you to select some text and press a function key to instantly apply that style. You could have up to 8 of them (F1-F8), and the style could of course be as simple as just changing the text color. See the built-in help for "Named styles" for more details. Plain old OmniOutliner can view and edit named styles, but can't create new ones, and they don't appear to get the function key binding, so it wouldn't be so useful. If you're a student, the educational upgrade price to Pro is only $25, and if you're a practicing attorney I don't want to hear any complaining about the price or I'll need to collect a hefty retainer before answering any more questions from you :-)