Adobe InDesign - Manual (Page 403)

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Change how object styles are listed in the panel
Select Small Panel Rows from the panel menu to display a more condensed version of the object styles.
Drag the object style to a different position. When a black line appears in the desired position, release the mouse button.
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.
2. Choose New Object Style from the Object Styles panel menu, or Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) the Create New Style button.
3. In the New Object Style dialog box, type a name for the style.
4. To base the style on another style, choose a style for Based On.
The Based On option lets you link styles to each other, so that changes in one style ripple through the styles that are based on it. If
you make changes to the formatting of a child style and decide you want to start over, click Reset To Base. That restores the child style’s
formatting to be identical to the style on which it’s based.
5. To add a keyboard shortcut, position the insertion point in the Shortcut box, and make sure Num Lock is turned on. Then hold down any
combination of Shift, Alt, and Ctrl (Windows) or Shift, Option, and Command (Mac OS), and press a number on the numeric keypad. You
cannot use letters or non-keypad numbers for defining style shortcuts.
6. Under Basic Attributes, select any additional categories that contain options you want to define, and set the options as desired. Click the
check box to the left of each category to indicate whether it should be included or ignored in the style.
Use the Story Options category to specify the writing direction, frame type, and named grid of a grid object style. The named grid stores
frame grid settings that can be applied to any frame grid.
7. To apply effects, choose an option in Effects For (Object, Stroke, Fill, or Text), and then select categories of effects and specify their
settings. You can specify different effects for each category. Indicate which Effects categories should be turned on, turned off, or ignored in
the style.
8. Under Export Options, select an option and specify export parameters for the option. You can define Alt text for placed images and graphics.
For tagged PDFs, you can apply tags and actual text settings. For HTML and EPUB layouts, you can specify different conversion settings on
each object so that they render well on different screen sizes and pixel densities.
Object export options are used to specify export parameters required when you export to different formats such as EPUB, HTML, or
accessible PDFs. Object export options are applied to both text frames and graphic frames, as well as groups. See Object export options.
9. Click OK.
Object style categories
If you want the style to apply only certain attributes, leaving any other settings untouched, make sure that the categories you want the style to
control are in the appropriate state. You can use any of three states for each category: turned on, turned off, or ignored. For example, checking the
Drop Shadow box will include drop shadow formatting in the object style. Deselecting the Drop Shadow box will indicate that drop shadow is
turned off as part of the style — any drop shadow applied to an object appears as an override. Setting the Drop Shadow box to “ignore” (a small
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