Your Styles in Every Document

Once you've created a series of character and paragraph styles, wouldn't it be nice to make them available in every new document you create? Well, if you read a couple of the other chapters, you can probably see where this is going. Save the document that contains your styles and then open the Adobe Illustrator Startup file (Illustrator CS2>Plug-ins folder). Go to the Window menu and choose Type>Character Styles. When the Character Styles palette opens, choose Load All Styles from the flyout menu. Navigate to the document you saved before, click Open, and all your styles should appear on the palette. Save the Startup file, restart Illustrator, and from then on your styles will be in every new document. (You'll have to do this in both the RGB and CMYK Startup files.)