Defining Object Styles

Just as character and paragraph styles make it easy to apply formatting to text, object styles make it easy to apply formatting to objects. InDesign comes with three built-in object style settings.

Tip

If you understand the principles of text styles, it will be easy to work with object styles.

To apply the built-in object styles:

1.	Select the object you want to style.
2.	Choose Window > Object Styles to open the Object Styles palette . The three built-in object style settings in the Object Styles palette.
3.	Click one of the following in the Object Styles palette: [Basic Graphics Frame] applies the default object settings for graphic frames. (See the chart on the following pages for which settings are included.) [Basic Text Frame] applies the default settings for text frames. (See the chart on the following pages to see which settings are included.) [None] removes all formatting from the object.

To modify the default styles:

1.	Double-click the Basic Graphics Frame or Basic Text Frame style. This opens the Object Style Options dialog box. Tip The [None] style can't be modified.
2.	Click each of the categories on the left side of the dialog box. This displays the settings for each category . (See the chart on the following pages for details of each category.) The Object Style Options dialog box lets you modify the object style attributes.
3.	Make whatever changes you like to each of the category settings.
4.	Use the Style Settings controls to see a description of the settings for each category . Click the Style Settings controls to see the description of the settings for each category.