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Object styles
About object styles
Just as you use paragraph and character styles to quickly format text, you can use object styles to quickly format
graphics and frames. Object styles include settings for stroke, color, transparency, drop shadows, paragraph styles, text
wrap, and more. You can assign different transparency effects for the object, fill, stroke, and text.
You can apply object styles to objects, groups, and frames (including text frames). A style can either clear and replace
all object settings or it can replace only specific settings, leaving other settings unchanged. You control which settings
the style affects by including or excluding a category of settings in the definition.
When creating styles, you might find that several styles share some of the same characteristics. Rather than setting
those characteristics each time you define the next style, you can base one object style on another. When you change
the base style, any shared attributes that appear in the “parent” style change in the “child” style as well.
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Object Styles panel overview
Use the Object Styles panel to create, edit, and apply object styles. For each new document, the panel initially lists a
default set of object styles. Object styles are saved with a document and display in the panel each time you open that
document. The Text Frame icon
marks the default style for text frames; the Graphics Frame icon
marks the
default style for graphics frames and drawn shapes.
Open the Object Style panel
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Choose Window
> Styles > Object Styles.
Change how object styles are listed in the panel
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Select Small Panel Rows from the panel menu to display a more condensed version of the object styles.
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Drag the object style to a different position. When a black line appears in the desired position, release the mouse
button.
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Select Sort By Name from the panel menu to list the object styles in alphabetical order.
Define object styles
You can define a style based on the settings you’ve already applied to an object, or you can create a style from scratch
or based on another style.
1 Select the object or text frame that uses the settings you want the object style to include.