Gobe Productive User's Guide - Graphic Styles

- Working in the graphics environment
- Drawing tools
- Pre-defined Shapes
- Pen Attributes
- Fill Color
- Text Color
- Customizing inks
- Customizing ink sets
- Transparency
- Moving items
- Resizing & Rotating items
- Aligning Items
- Reshaping, reorienting & smoothing shapes
- Arranging, grouping & locking items
- Creating Outlines
- Views & Layers
- Styles

# Styles

Create a New Graphic Style | Edit a Style | Copy a Style
Delete a Style | Apply a Style to an Item |

You can transform any graphic into a style. Once a graphic is a style, you can apply that style to any other graphic. For example, if you create a graphic (such as a logo) with a particular fill and pen color, you can apply the same fill and pen colors to other graphics and frames. The graphics and frames need not be of the same shape.

Professional writers and designers always use styles because it standardizes the look and feel of documents. Moreover, once you have a comprehensive set of styles, you can more quickly develop and publish documents.

However, the most useful aspect of styles is their live nature. If you change a formatting feature of a style, all items or text using that style are automatically updated. For example, if you change the text style color, all text that uses that style is updated to the new color. The same is true of word processing and spreadsheet styles.

## To Create a New Graphic Style

1. Draw a graphic item. Set the graphic properties such as color and pen size exactly how you want them. You can use a frame as well as a graphic item.
2. Select New Style... from the Styles tool . A New Style dialog box is displayed.
3. Type in a Style Name.
4. Set the Style Type. If you want the style to appear in ALL document types, select Basic. If you want the style to appear in only graphics documents, select Graphics.
5. Check the Copy formatting from selection box. This copies the formatting from the selected item. If you leave this unchecked, a new "blank" style is created.
6. Click OK.

## To Edit a Style

Once a style is created, you can freely edit the properties for the style.

| IMPORTANT: While you are editing styles you cannot directly edit any items in the workspace. If you want to edit items in the workspace, you must close the Edit Styles window.

1. Select the Edit Style from the Styles tool . An Edit Styles window is displayed.

- The left side of the window lists all the styles available in the current document. Remember, the Basic section can list graphic and spreadsheet styles as well as text styles.

2. Select the style you want to edit. To unfold a category of styles, click the small triangle beside the style group.

- The right side of the Edit Styles window lists all the properties you can change for the style.

3. Use the appropriate tool or menu to change a parameter. For example, if you want to change the fill color, use the Fill Color tool on the FormatBar and select the color, pattern, or gradient you want. You can also tear-off the tools and select your options from the floating palettes for the tool. See the Tear-Off Tools topic for more information.
4. When you are finished editing styles, close the Edit Styles window.

## To Delete a Style

1. Select the Edit Style from the Styles tool . An Edit Styles window is displayed.
2. Select the style you want to delete in the styles list (left side of window).
3. Select Clear Style from the Edit menu. The style is removed.

## To Copy a Style

Generally, when you copy text or images from one frame to another or one document to another, the styles associated with the copied material is also copied. You can also manually copy a style from one document to another.

1. Select the Edit Style from the Styles tool . An Edit Styles window is displayed.
2. Select the style you want to copy in the styles list (left side of window).
3. Select Copy Style from the Edit menu. The style is copied.
4. Close the Edit Styles window.
5. Open the document where you wish to place the copied style.
6. Open the Edit Styles window in the new document.
7. Select Paste Style from the Edit menu. The style is copied to the new document.

| NOTE: If you copy a style, or copy text or graphics with styles into a document where an existing style has the same name, Gobe Productive displays a dialog box asking whether you wish to keep the existing style or replace it with the new style.

## To Apply a Style to an Item

1. Select the item you wish to apply the style to.
2. Select the name of the style from the Styles tool . The style is applied to the selected item.

- You can also tear-off the style tool and select the style from the style palette.

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