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Basing one style on another

You can base one style on another. One parent style can have many different child styles based on it; for instance, the children can all have the same fill but various stroke weights. Editing a parent style changes any attributes that the child styles share. Attributes unique to each child style do not change.

Removing a child style from an object or text makes the parent style active, but the object or text retains all of its attributes.

To base one style on another:

1

Choose Edit > Select > None or press Tab to deselect all objects.

2

In the Styles panel, select the style name of the child style.

3

Click the triangle in the upper right corner of the Styles panel to display the Options pop-up menu, and choose Set Parent.

4

In the Set Parent dialog box, choose another style to be the parent or source style, and click OK.

To copy style information to another document:

1

Select an object in the source document and choose Edit > Cut or Copy.

You can also select text or a paragraph style.

2

Open the destination document and choose Edit > Paste.

The object appears in the document, and its style appears in the Styles panel. When a style in the destination document has the same name as the style you want to copy, the style is overridden but not redefined.

For information on overriding a paragraph style, see Modifying styles.