| You will most likely want to create your own object styles. To create a new object style: 1. | Choose New Style from the Object Styles palette menu. or Hold the Opt/Alt key and click the New Style icon in the Object Styles palette. The New Object Styles dialog box appears .
Use the New Object Styles dialog box to define the attributes of an object style.
| 2. | Use the Name field to name the style. | 3. | Use the checkboxes to control which categories are part of the style . Unchecked categories are not part of the style .
Click the category controls to choose which attributes should be included in the object style. | 4. | Use the Based On field to base one style on another. | 5. | Click the Reset To Base button to remove all differences between one style based on another. | 6. | Click OK to create the style. |
The easier way to define an object style is to format the object and define the style by example. To define an object style by example: 1. | Select a sample object. | 2. | Use the palettes and commands to format the object. | 3. | Choose New Style from the Object Styles palette menu. or Hold the Opt/Alt key and click the New Style icon in the Object Styles palette. The New Object Styles dialog box appears. | 4. | Name the style. | 5. | Click OK to create the style. Tip Object styles can be duplicated just like text styles. |
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