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QuarkXPress 8: A Suite Response

Editing item styles

If you change your mind about attributes that you have defined for a style, follow these steps for editing.

Click the title of the item style.

 

Click the PENCIL icon along the top of the pane
within the item style palette.

Click through to the desired pane(s) within the dialogue box and change the attributes.

Click OK.

 

Figure 60 The edit item styles dialogue box provides you a single point of access for all item-formatting options. Click through the panes and choose the options when you create a new style or when you want to edit previously defined settings.

To apply a style to an item:

Select the item.

 

Click on the item style's title in the item styles palette.

 

Remember that these function in the same manner as a style sheet for text. If you have applied a style to lots of items, when you modify the item style, that change is applied to all items to which you have applied this item style.

Sharing item styles

If you CONTROL + CLICK or RIGHT CLICK on a title style, you can import or export your styles. Styles are stored at the project level. Being able to export them for use in another project, or for use by another user, is very convenient. Item styles cannot be shared using the append option.

 

IT'S CHANGING TIME

By adding these instructions to this point in the story line, I do not mean to imply that you may only find and change settings of items to which you have previously applied an item style. In fact, this feature is completely independent of item styles, but the technology is also an integration of the features from ALAP's XPert Tools.

First we'll look at a shortcut then explore the long version. Refer to figure XX to follow along.

Click on an item to sample styles that you wish to find and change. (For example, if you wish to find a particular line weight, no matter the color, select a line of that weight.)

Choose EDIT > ITEM FIND/CHANGE.

 

Optionally, navigate to the panel that has the attributes you wish to find.

 

Click the fly-out menu and choose either ACQUIRE ALL ATTRIBUTES or ACQUIRE PANEL ATTRIBUTES (to find only those attributes contained within the current panel). You may add to or remove any of these attributes.

In the right-hand pane (change to), choose the attributes that you wish to apply to items that meet the criteria you have defined on the left.

From the lower edge of the dialogue box, choose to what items you wish to limit the search.

Click FIND NEXT.

 

Click CHANGE THEN FIND, CHANGE, or CHANGE ALL, continuing until you have completed the search routine, or until you have found those instances that you wanted to change.

Close the window.

 

Figure 61 Using the acquire attributes option, you can cut down on the time and the guesswork when finding attributes — especially helpful when lots of attributes have been applied and need to be changed. As you can see above, you may also clear attributes that you sampled.

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