Object styles - InDesign Tutorial

- [Instructor] Object styles can be used amongst other things for formatting the fitting of pictures within frames. Tremendously time-saving. But they can also be used to format your text. You can combine paragraph formatting with object-level formatting. So in this particular example, I have created an object style which defines the fill color, the stroke color, the stroke weight, the tint of the fill color, and also the corner options. You can see that I have a rounded corner on bottom-right as well as the text frame general options, the inset spacing. So we have an inset on the frame as well. So all of those things are incorporated into the object style, but where we can take it further is we can also say, "Apply a specific format to the content of the frame." And then we can take it further still by setting up a style loop. For this to work, your formatting must be entirely predictable. It only takes one character out of place and the whole thing will come crashing down like a…