[kparsons]

Thank you guys for your help. The named styles option actually works really well. What I will do is create a KM where when, for example, I press ctrl+shift+(x) it will trigger one of the function keys (because it is physically awkward to use function keys when typing).

Robtrew, I got your macros to work to on my system, but as you said its a clunky. Its too bad there isn't a uniform applescript library for all programs on a mac.