User Guide

156 Chapter 8: Using Styles, Symbols, and URLs
Applying a style
You can use the Styles panel to create, store, and apply styles to objects or text.
Styles panel
When you apply a style to an object, you can later update the style without affecting the original
object. Fireworks does not keep track of which style you applied to an object. If you delete a
custom style, you cannot recover it; however, any object currently using the style retains its
attributes. If you delete a style supplied in Fireworks, you can recover it and all other deleted styles
using the Reset Styles command in the Styles panel Options menu. However, resetting styles also
deletes your custom styles.
To apply a style to a selected object or text block:
1 Choose Window > Styles to open the Styles panel.
2 Click a style in the Styles panel.
Creating and deleting styles
You can create a style based on the attributes of a selected object. The style is displayed in
the Styles panel.
You can also delete styles from the Styles panel.
The following attributes can be saved in a style:
• Fill type and color, including patterns, textures, and vector gradient attributes such as angle,
position, and opacity
• Stroke type and color
• Effects
• Text attributes such as font, point size, style (bold, italic, or underline), alignment, anti-
aliasing, auto-kerning, horizontal scale, range kerning, and leading