Using the Styles palette

The Styles palette lets you save and apply styles to any object. A style is the set of attributes of an object. Object attributes include settings from various palettes, including the animation timeline and the Rollover palette. Styles do not include the type of object (geometric, text, or image), its shape, and any settings from the Transform palette or the Web palette applied to the style.

Consider the following guidelines when applying styles:

• Styles can be applied to any object in LiveMotion--geometric, type, and image.
• Rollovers can be saved and applied as styles. (See About rollovers and Saving and applying rollover styles.)
• Animations can be saved and applied as styles.
• A style can have up to 99 object layers that adopt the shape and type of object to which you apply the style.
• Each layer in a style has any combination of color, background fill, texture, 3D effect, distortion effect, gradient, opacity, and any attributes set in the Filter and Layer palettes.
• You can copy and paste styles and individual style attributes. (See Cutting, copying, and pasting objects.)
• In addition to applying entire styles, you can create and modify the attributes individually.
• Styles make it easy to apply object scripts. Styles that include scripts apply the object scripts when you apply the style to an object.

To display the Styles palette:

1. Choose Window > Styles.
2. Choose a view for the sample Styles:
• Swatches View to display a grid of thumbnail examples of styles.
• Preview View to display a named list of styles along with a large thumbnail for the currently selected style.
• Name View to display a named list of styles, with a small thumbnail example of each.

Styles palette A. View animation styles B. View rollover styles C. View object layer styles D. View script styles E. Apply F. New style G.Trash

To display a subset of styles in the palette:

1. Choose Window > Styles.
2. Select one or more style attributes:
• Animation  to display styles that only include animation.
• Rollover  to display styles with rollovers or animated Object or Layer attributes.
• Object Layers  to display styles with multiple layers.
• Script  to display styles that include scripting.

Related Subtopics:

Applying styles
Creating custom styles