Adobe InDesign - Manual (Page 402)

Object styles
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About object styles
Object Styles panel overview
Define object styles
Apply object styles
Use default object styles
Clear object style overrides
Break the link to an object style
Rename an object style
Edit object styles
Delete an object style
Redefine an object style
Import 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.
You can also apply object styles to frame grids. By default, any frame grid you create uses the [Basic Grid] object style. You can edit the [Basic
Grid] style or you can apply other object styles to the grid. When you create or edit an object style for a frame grid, use the Story Options section
to specify writing direction, frame type, and named grid.
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.
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.
Use the Object Styles panel to create, name, 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 graphic frames; the Grid icon marks the default style for frame
grids.
Open the Object Style panel
Choose Window > Styles > Object Styles.
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