Using object styles

- Just like text styles, object styles are an essential…tool for working with long documents.…They help you achieve consistent, automatic formatting…of page elements and just as importantly, they allow…you to make changes to objects throughout all your…files with just one edit to the style definition.…Let's take a little peek at the power of Object Styles.…Here in my document, I have a box for displaying recipes.…This might be used many times over the course of a project.…So, anytime you have a page element like this,…the more times it's gonna be used, the more you should…be using an Object Style to format it.…

With the Object Style I can apply things like the…fill color, the stroke color, this bevel effect that's…on the stroke, and even all the text formatting inside…the text frame.…The reason I can apply all the text formatting at once…is because this is a very predictable sequence of formatting…and in my Paragraph Styles, I use the Next Style feature.…For example, if I click in this frame and click in the…