Is it not supposed to work accross layers?
How else can you do it?
I haven't been able to make sense of the Copy and Paste buttons in the
style palette.
But I got a kick out of this sentence from The Official Guide:
However, if you copy and paste the style, the style is independent of the style and will not be updated when the style is changed.
push & pull styles across layers
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What the what what?!However, if you copy and paste the style, the style is independent of the style and will not be updated when the style is changed.
That should have read: ...if you copy/paste a saved style (applied style), it is independant, and changes made to the saved style won't change the pasted style since it is not an applied, saved style.
Mmm, I'm not sure that's much better.
I don't use the push/pull feature. Copy/paste is probably easier across layers.
1)Select the shape (or saved style) that you want to copy from.
Hit the copy button.
2)Either deselect that shape and press the paste button (if you want to use that copied style for new shapes, i.e. as your default style), or select the shape you want to paste to and press the paste button.
Re: push & pull styles across layers
It makes sense to me. If you copy and paste a style it is NOT updated when the "original" style you copied from is changed. It IS independent.rogermate wrote:
However, if you copy and paste the style, the style is independent of the style and will not be updated when the style is changed.
A saved style is totally different. It is applied to a shape using the menus at the bottom of the style palette when a shape is selected. This property is copied when using the copy/paste style buttons but it it is not a part of the copy/paste functionality. Named styles can be copied and pasted when they are selected in the style palette but once again, they are independent like any other style.
What that description is saying is that copying and pasting styles does not create any type of link or connection between the copied style and the pasted style. You must use saved styles to create a "link" to a master style.
I don't often use copy/paste for styles. I almost always use named styles. This saves a ton of work when you want to make changes later on.
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To further obfuscate the meaning *fg*:
Copy&paste styles works within the style palette only. The idea is to copy an existing style, give it a new name, and then change it a bit. This should save some work because you don't need to re-create the same settings again and again.
Applying a style to a shape means to create a link between an existing style and a shape. If a style which has been applied to shapes before is changed, all the shapes will show the change.
If you made a copy from a style which already was applied to a shape, and change something in that copied style, of course the shape will show no difference - because it is still linked to the original style.
The layer of a shape doesn't matter at all in this respect.
Copy&paste styles works within the style palette only. The idea is to copy an existing style, give it a new name, and then change it a bit. This should save some work because you don't need to re-create the same settings again and again.
Applying a style to a shape means to create a link between an existing style and a shape. If a style which has been applied to shapes before is changed, all the shapes will show the change.
If you made a copy from a style which already was applied to a shape, and change something in that copied style, of course the shape will show no difference - because it is still linked to the original style.
The layer of a shape doesn't matter at all in this respect.