Operation Manual

Working with styles and style sets | 467
Working with styles and style sets
Corel DESIGNER provides advanced style capabilities that allow you to format your documents with speed, ease, and consistency. You can
create and apply styles and style sets to different types of objects: graphic objects, artistic and paragraph text, callout and dimension objects,
and any objects created with the Artistic Media tools.
Styles and style sets are groups of attributes that determine the appearance of objects. When you apply a style or style set to an object, all
the attributes defined in that style are applied to the object in one step. That is how you can format simultaneously many different objects
and significantly reduce your set-up and production time. What is more, when you edit a style or style set, all the objects defined by that
style are automatically updated.
You can also export styles and style sets as style sheets for use in other documents, or import them from previously saved style sheets.
This section includes the following topics:
• “Creating styles and style sets” (page 467)
• “Applying styles and style sets” (page 470)
• “Editing styles and style sets” (page 470)
• “Managing default object properties” (page 471)
• “Exporting and importing style sheets” (page 473)
• “Assigning keyboard shortcuts to styles or style sets” (page 473)
• “Finding objects that use a specific style or style set” (page 474)
• “Breaking the link between objects and styles or style sets” (page 474)
Creating styles and style sets
A style is a group of formatting attributes that defines an object property, such as outline or fill. For example, to define an outline style, you
can specify attributes such as outline width, color, and type of line. To define a character style, you can specify the font type, font style and
size, text color and background color, character position, caps, and more. Corel DESIGNER lets you create and apply outline, fill, paragraph,
character, and text frame styles.
Corel DESIGNER lets you group styles into style sets. A style set is a collection of styles that helps you define the appearance of an object.
For example, you can create a style set containing a fill style and an outline style that you can apply to graphic objects such as rectangles,
ellipses, and curves.
There are two options for creating styles. You can create a style or style set based on the formatting of an object that you like, or you can
create a style or style set from scratch by setting the object attributes in the Object styles docker.