Operation Manual

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• “Exporting and importing style sheets” (page 485)

• “Assigning keyboard shortcuts to styles or style sets” (page 486)

• “Finding objects that use a specific style or style set” (page 486)

• “Breaking the link between objects and styles or style sets” (page 486)

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. CorelDRAW lets you create and apply outline, fill, paragraph,

character, and text frame styles.

CorelDRAW 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.

In CorelDRAW, styles can contain other styles. A style that contains another style is called a parent; a style that is contained within another

style is called a child. Properties are automatically inherited from the parent; however, you can override inherited properties for a child and

set its own specific properties. When you modify the parent style, the child style is updated automatically. If you set child-specific attributes,

the attributes are no longer related to the parent, so if you modify the parent, the child-specific attributes will not be modified. The parent-

child relationship applies to style sets as well.

You can use child and parent styles in documents where you want objects to share some, but not all, attributes, and you need to make

global changes on a regular basis. For example, if you are working on a long document and you want to have headings and subheadings

with similar formatting, you can create a parent character style for the headings and a child character style for the subheadings. The parent

and the child styles can share the same color and font type but differ in size. If you choose a different color or font type for the parent, both

the headings and the subheadings will be updated automatically. The subheadings, however, will still appear smaller than the headings.

To create a style from an object

Using the Pick tool , right-click an object.

2 Choose Object styles, choose New style from, and point to a style type.

A preview shows you what object attributes will be included in the new style.

3 Click a style type.

4 In the New style from dialog box, type a name in the New style name box.

If the Object styles docker is not open, enable the Open object styles docker check box in the New style from dialog box.

You can also create a style from an object by right-clicking the Styles folder in the Object styles docker, choosing New from

selected, and then choosing a style type.

To create a style set from an object

Using the Pick tool , right-click an object.

2 Choose Object styles, and point to New style set from.