Styles

Instead of having to create effects, fills, colors and properties for your design from scratch, the Styles panel can be used to apply a pre-designed style to your object (shape, artistic text or frame text). If you want to save a combination of the above for future use, these can be stored in the panel as a custom style.

Neon style applied from the Styles panel.

To apply a style:

From the Styles panel, select a category from the pop-up menu.
Select and drag your chosen style onto your object.

To create a custom category:

Click Panel Preferences and choose Add Styles Category from the menu.
On the dialog, give the category a name, e.g. MyStyles.

To rename a styles category:

Choose the category you want to rename from the category pop-up menu.
Click Panel Preferences and choose Rename Category from the menu.
Type a new name for the category in the dialog and click OK.

To save a style:

On the Styles panel, select a category to save the style into.
Do one of the following:
- Select the object whose style you want to save, click Panel Preferences on the Styles panel, then choose Add Style from Selection from the menu.
- -click the object and select Create Style (or select from Edit menu).

To sample the style of an object or text:

Select the Style Picker Tool.
In the document view, click an object or a character in text.

To apply a sampled style to objects/text one at a time:

After sampling a style:

On the context toolbar, select the style attributes you wish to apply.
In the document view, click an object or a word, or select a text range.
Repeat for any additional objects you wish to style.

To apply a sampled style to multiple objects simultaneously:

In the document view or on the Layers panel, select the objects you wish to style.
Select the Style Picker Tool.
On the context toolbar, select the attributes you wish to apply.
Sample the style of an object or a character in text.

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