Edit object style

[Blaubär]

Please, can anyone tell me how to edit an object style in Publisher, I can’t find a way to change them.

Thanks

btw. How can I save a shortcut to "show in finder" from the resources window?

[Wosven]

It's impossible to modify an object style in any of the apps, tragically.

[Wosven]

For now, the only option, is to modify an object with this style, and save is as a new object style. And reapply it on the objects…

[Blaubär]

Thanks - but this is no way.

As long as I can’t change a larger amount of objects (e.g. in a book) by working on the style Publisher is not an alternative to INDD.

 

[walt.farrell]

What kind of changes do you need to make to all those objects? And what kind of objects are they?

[Wosven]

That can be text frame or other object.

ID include Paragraph text style and the option to "apply next p.style", and it's a big time saver when working on magazine, for example.
QXD include size, so you can later modify an Object style and have all those having this new height or with or both.

Usually, like for Text style, there's a "+" to the style's name when an object was modified and doesn't use anymore the "pure" style, so you can choose to erase the modifications.

And it would be usefull in AD too: imagine you use different styles for texture strokes and main shapes strokes… and realise those should be larger. Modifying the style would permit to choose the right width easily, instead of selecting all the stroke we want to modify before modifying the width.

 

Object styles is needed in Affinity apps. We would be able to check if it's at 100% or bigger or smaller, an usual problem we've got when applying a style with, for example 2 pts stroke, ending up to be 1.2 pt on another object.

Instead of needing assets for text frames or other objects, we could have  a palette of object styles for document.

For those used to modifiable object styles, it's difficult to work without them  😊

 

[Blaubär]

Sorry, I was off work for some days.

Working on books I often have to change some basic characteristics of (multiple used) objects.
Take for instance a coloured box (e.g. containing text with additional information) used up to 40-50 times in the complete layout. Changing text styles is easy, but try to change colour of the box or add a shadow ...
Sometimes you can work with linked files, but this ist not a satisfying solution. A “simple“ object style palette (as it is for text styles, as it is in Adobes apps) would be a great time saver.