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Use object styles - InDesign Tutorial

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Use object styles

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- [Instructor] In this movie we'll see how to use Object Styles to apply efficient and consistent formatting to objects in your layout. In our file we have a series of recipes, and let's say that we were told to put the recipe steps for each one in a frame with a Stroke and Fill and rounded corners like you see here in the first recipe. all we have to do is select the object, We'll choose Window, Styles, Sbject Styles, and hold option or alt and click on the button to create a new style. that you can apply to a text frame in your new object style with all these settings here. I definitely want to have the Fill and Stroke turned on, so when I apply the object style, it replaces any Fill and Stroke currently applied to the frame, and the same goes for Stroke and Corner options. I need these one pica, rounded corners. Note that I can also turn on Paragraph Styles to be formatted with the Recipe Steps paragraph style. You can also include Transparency effects and Export Options, and before I close the dialogue box, I'll check General options and be sure to select Apply Style to Selection. That way my first Recipe Steps text frame I'll click OK, and now we'll apply the object style to the other text frames containing recipe steps. and all the formatting is applied. I'll go to the next page. I'll shift-click to select all three frames, and now the great thing is, we can reformat all the frames at once if we need to, so if we get the instruction so if we get the instruction to change the corners to inverse rounded, no problem. We can just right click the object style to edit it, We can just right click the object style to edit it, and go to the Stroke and Corner options, and pick the inverse rounded shape. and pick the inverse rounded shape. Click OK, Click OK, and all the frames are updated. and all the frames are updated. So in this movie we saw how to use Object Styles So in this movie we saw how to use Object Styles to quickly format multiple objects in a layout, to quickly format multiple objects in a layout, and how to change that formatting all at once and how to change that formatting all at once by editing the object style. by editing the object style.

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