Adobe InDesign CC

Lesson C: Leverage Object Styles

Earlier we had an “Object Styles Introduction” (page 40) in which we “recorded” the simple appearance attributes of shapes. Now we’ll get a little fancier.

For Text Frame Options

• Open the downloaded document called 5 Frame Options & Object Styles.indd. Go to page 5 and fit that page in the window (⌘-0/Ctrl-0).
• Select the caption frame below the tree image. I’d like you to notice that there is a paragraph style (Caption) applied to the text in that frame, as well as the various text frame options we discussed earlier controlling the container itself.
• Locate the Object Styles panel. If it’s not on-screen, open it by choosing Window > Styles > Object Styles. Go to its panel menu (in its upper-right corner) and ...