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Using object styles - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2025 Essential Training
Using object styles
- [Instructor] 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. So, let's go ahead and make an object style in this document from the Exercise Files folder. First, I'll press Option or Alt-Page Up a couple of times to jump back a couple spreads. Now, let's go ahead and apply some formatting to this object, this graphic frame. How about we apply a stroke, like this red color, and let's make it thick, like eight points. Also, while we're at it, let's give it a drop shadow by clicking on the Drop shadow button in the Control Panel. Okay, I like that. Let's make an object style based on that formatting. The Object Styles panel is over here in the dock. If you don't see it there, you can find it in the Window menu. Now, we want to make a new object style based…
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