Sheldon Lyttle

Wow! That seemed to do the trick (the unsync / resync) ... Thanks sooo much! This will save me hours!

I am working on a large document with LOTS of images within it. I am trying to find a way that I can centrally manage the treatment of these images so that if, for example I want to change the outer glow, I can simply change that in one location and have that treatment ripple out to all the 10s of images throughout my document. The images themselves can appear anywhere within a page, so I don't really see a way of using master pages in this particular case (maybe I am wrong). I initially attempted to do this by creating a symbol using the Designer persona (as had been suggested as an option on another similar topic) .... creating a symbol out of an empty image frame with my standardized FX treatment applied.... I hoped that I could then just drop this symbol where ever I wanted an image and then add the image to the symbol. Unfortunately whenever I dropped the image into the symbol it always updates the master symbol with that image. This could be avoided by detaching the empty symbol after I dropped it into a page, but of course that that defeats the purpose of having the treatment for all images centrally managed (through the symbol). Can someone suggest a strategy for doing this kind of image treatment design management within Publisher? (for those of you who are familiar with web design, it is similar to how a CSS file would work) Thanks for any suggestions you may have.

Wow ... what a great community there is here! I WAS actually able to make the symbols technique work for me, and I can also see how the global select would work as well.... Thanks for all your lightening fast help!

Wow! Thanks Dominik! That is a really cool feature! ... not sure it I can adapt it for my purpose here, but I am certain I will have use of this elsewhere. Cheers, -Sheldon

HI Everyone, I am a bit of a newbie to the affinity suit so please forgive me if this is an obvious question. I have a LOT of image frames in a large family history book I am working on, and I am concerned that if I need to make changes to styling of these frames, I am going to have to go through the entire book and adjust them one at a time. I was looking for something like text styles where I could centrally manage a particular style for frames, but so far haven't found anything. Maybe I should be trying to do this through master pages in some way?... the trouble is I just want it applied to a particular set of image frames within a page. Any suggestions? -Sheldon