From the course: InDesign: Advanced Styles
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Some common uses for object styles - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Advanced Styles
Some common uses for object styles
- [Instructor] How you use object styles depends on the kind of publications you're working with. In this movie, I'll show some examples of object styles that I use frequently. They're all easy to set up and can save a lot of time as well as contribute to a better-looking document. I'm going to move to the second page, where we have all of the frames in their starting state. Command spacebar, click and drag to view the images at the top. So in all my documents, I have a few object styles that meet my picture-fitting needs. As an aside, to make sure that certain styles appear in every new document, create those styles with no document open, or load those styles from another document while no document is open. I cover this in the movie on creating default paragraph styles, and the process is the same for object styles. Now for those images that are cut out, where cropping the image is not really an option, I have an object style called Fit, and if we look at its properties…
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