Operation Manual

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Layout and design
Last updated 11/30/2015
3 To apply grid format attributes to the entire story, select the frame grid using the Selection tool and select Edit >
Apply Grid Format.
You can also add named grids to object styles. If you add a named grid to the default object style for grid frames, all grid
frames you create appear formatted according to the named grid you specify. (See
About object styles.)
Edit named grids
You can change the grid format definitions at any time. When you change the definition of a grid format, all of the frame
grids formatted with that style change to conform with the newly defined style.
1 Using the Named Grids panel, select the grid format to be edited, and choose Named Grid Options from the panel
menu, or double-click the grid format you want to edit in the Named Grids panel.
2 Change the settings in the Modify Named Grid dialog box. (See Create named grid formats.)
3 Click OK.
This modifies the grid format given to the currently selected frame grid. To modify settings for frame grids which are
not currently selected, perform the above operation without selecting any objects in the document, or double-click the
grid format name in the Named Grids panel while holding down Shift+Ctrl+Alt (Windows) or
Shift+Command+Option (Mac OS).
Delete named grids
The formatting applied to text in a frame is unchanged even if a grid format is deleted, but the link to the grid format
is removed.
1 Select the name of the grid format you want to delete in the Named Grids panel.
2 Choose Delete Named Grids from the panel menu, or click the Delete icon at the bottom of the Named Grids
panel.
When you delete grid formats, the frame grid to which the grid format was applied doesn’t appear to change, but the
format is no longer connected with the grid format.
Import grid formats from other documents
1 Choose Load All Named Grids from the Named Grids panel menu.
2 Double-click the InDesign document containing the grid formats you want to import.
When you import a grid format from another document that has the same name as a grid format in the current
document, the existing grid format in the import destination will be overwritten, and when this grid format is applied
the grid format for all the frame grids will be changed.