Adobe ILLUSTRATOR CS2 User Manual page 447

To use the Graphic Styles palette
You use the Graphic Styles palette to create, name, and apply sets of appearance attributes. The palette lists a default
set of graphic styles when you create a new document. Graphic styles that are saved with the active document will
display in the palette when that document is open and active. To display the Graphic Styles palette, choose Window >
Graphic Styles.
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Do any of the following to change how graphic styles are listed in the palette:
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Select a view option from the palette menu: Thumbnail View to display thumbnails, Small List View to display a
list of named styles with a small thumbnail, or Large List View to display a list of named styles along with a large
thumbnail.
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Drag the graphic style to a different position. When a black line appears in the desired position, release the mouse
button.
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Select Sort By Name from the palette menu to list the graphic styles in alphabetical order.
To break the link to a graphic style
1 Select the object, group, or layer that has the graphic style applied to it.
Do one of the following:
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Choose Break Link To Graphic Style from the Graphic Styles palette menu, or click the Break Link To Graphic
Style button in the palette.
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Change any appearance attribute of the selection (such as a fill, stroke, transparency, or effect).
The object, group, or layer retains the same appearance attributes and is now independently editable. However, these
attributes are no longer associated with a graphic style.
To create graphic styles
1 Select an object and apply any combination of appearance attributes, including fills and strokes, effects, and trans­
parency settings.
You can use the Appearance palette to adjust and order the appearance attributes and create multiple fills and strokes.
For example, you can have three fills in a graphic style, each with a different opacity and blend mode that defines
how the various colors interact.
Do any of the following:
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Click the New Graphic Style button
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Select New Graphic Style from the palette menu.
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Drag the thumbnail from the Appearance palette (or the object from the illustration window) into the Graphic
Styles palette.
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Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) the New Graphic Style button, enter the name of the graphic style,
and click OK.
in the Graphic Styles palette.
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