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Adobe Illustrator Help Using Appearance Attributes, Styles, and Effects
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• Target an item in the Layers palette. (See “Changing the appearance of artwork using
the Layers palette” on page 223.)
• Select a stroke or fill in the Appearance palette. (See “Working with appearance
attributes” on page 228.)
• Select a style in the Styles palette. (See “Using styles” on page 231.)
2 Choose a command from the Effect menu.
3 Specify settings, and apply the effect.
4 If you selected a style, the appearance attributes are unlinked from that style. In this
case, you can do any of the following:
• Create a new style.(See “Using the Styles palette” on page 231.)
• Leave the appearance attributes unlinked.
Note: You can apply effects to type objects, but not to selected characters within the type
objects.
To edit or remove an effect:
Edit or remove the effect as described in “
Modifying and removing appearance attributes”
on page 230.