Last week I talked about the importance of saving changes to existing object styles so that you can ensure a consistent appearance of slide objects, project-wide.
I'd like to take that concept one step further. In the image below, the Style being used on all of the text captions in my project is once again the [Default Caption Style].
Just like last week, I wasn't happy with the font or font size used in any of my project captions. I again selected a caption on one of my slides and made changes usingthe Character group on the Properties panel.
As expected, a plus sign appeared to the left of the style name in the Style drop-down menu. As I mentioned last week, the plus sign means that there's a style override that has been applied to the selected slide object.
Last week I showed you that you can simply click the Save changes to Existing Style command to instantly update all of the text captions in a project. From that point forward, the [Default Caption Style] will display the updated formatting.
But that was so last week. This week I'm not satisfied with simply saving my changes. Using that technique, I was able to update my objects to reflect my changes. While that was wonderful, I'm thinking that I won't always want to alter the look of my default styles. Instead, it would be better to create a new object style based on new formatting applied to a single object. And to take things one step further, I'd like to apply the new style to objects project-wide.
What I'm looking to do sounds complicated. But here's a solution that I think you'll agree is super simple.
Instead of clicking the Save changes to Existing Style command, click the Create New Style command (it's the command just to the left of Save changes to Existing Style command).
Give the style a name and then click the OK button.
The new style will automatically be applied to the selected slide object. To use the new style on objects throughout the project, click the Apply to style to command.
Lastly, use the drop-down menu to select the style you'd like to replace with the new style. Click the OK button and the change will be just about instant... and project wide.
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