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Using item styles

Using item styles - QuarkXPress Tutorial

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Using item styles

- [Voiceover] If you have page elements with specific formatting that you reuse over and over again in your layouts, you can probably save a lot of time and effort by creating and applying item styles. Item styles work for items in much the same way that paragraph and character styles work for text. You set up a bunch of formatting options, and save them as a named style, that you can then apply with just a click to items in your layout. For example, in our exercise file we have three small pictures of cheese and the picture boxes are formatted quite differently. They differ in terms of size, position, frame, the opacity of the picture, rounded corners, drop shadows, and so on. And let's say that we needed to apply a look similar to this top blue box to the others. And these could actually be on different pages in the layout, I just put them all here on the same page, just to make things easier for the demonstration. What I can do is select the top box with the item tool, this one has…

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