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Create, apply, and redefine object styles

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Create, apply, and redefine object styles

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- [Instructor] Just as text formats can be captured as paragraph styles and character styles, object level formatting can be incorporated into an object style. Object styles behave in a similar way to paragraph styles and character styles. Here's a simple example. I'll select this frame and I'm going to come to the swatches panel and make its fill cyan. I'll increase its stroke weight and I'm going to come to the object menu and do corner options and I'm going to round the corners. So I'm now going to base an object style upon this selection. From the object styles panel, I'll choose new object style and I'll call this box. I have "apply style to selection" checked so that style gets applied back to the selected item. I'm going to come to the second page in this document. I have lots of other frames. I can select them and I can apply that style to them. Now, let's say that I want one of my frames to be magenta. I'll select this, come to my swatches panel, and I'll change the fill…

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