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Using object styles

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Using object styles

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- So now that you're familiar with character styles and paragraph styles, it's time to talk about object styles. Yes, that's right. You can define an object style that with a single click will apply all sorts of object formatting, such as fill and stroke, transparency effects and more. Let's make an object style in this document from the exercise files folder. First, I'm going to press option or alt + page up two times to jump to a previous spread. Now we can select one of these images, like the one on the left. And we'll apply some formatting to it as an example. How about we apply a stroke here? Maybe this gray stroke. Let's make it thicker, how about eight points? Also, while we're at it, let's give it a drop shadow. I'll pull that out of the control panel and that looks pretty good so I'll click okay. Great, I like it. Let's make an object style based on that. The object styles panel is over here in the dock.…

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