Create styles and style sets

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A style is a group of formatting attributes that defines an object property, such as outline or fill. For example, to define an outline style, you can specify attributes such as outline width, color, and type of line. To define a character style, you can specify the font type, font style and size, text color and background color, character position, caps, and more. CorelDRAW lets you create and apply outline, fill, paragraph, character, and text frame styles.

CorelDRAW lets you group styles into style sets. A style set is a collection of styles that helps you define the appearance of an object. For example, you can create a style set containing a fill style and an outline style that you can apply to graphic objects such as rectangles, ellipses, and curves.

There are two options for creating styles. You can create a style or style set based on the formatting of an object that you like, or you can create a style or style set from scratch by setting the object attributes in the Object Styles inspector.

In CorelDRAW, styles can contain other styles. A style that contains another style is called a parent; a style that is contained within another style is called a child. Properties are automatically inherited from the parent; however, you can override inherited properties for a child and set its own specific properties. When you modify the parent style, the child style is updated automatically. If you set child-specific attributes, the attributes are no longer related to the parent, so if you modify the parent, the child-specific attributes will not be modified. The parent-child relationship applies to style sets as well.

You can use child and parent styles in documents where you want objects to share some, but not all, attributes, and you need to make global changes on a regular basis. For example, if you are working on a long document and you want to have headings and subheadings with similar formatting, you can create a parent character style for the headings and a child character style for the subheadings. The parent and the child styles can share the same color and font type but differ in size. If you choose a different color or font type for the parent, both the headings and the subheadings will be updated automatically. The subheadings, however, will still appear smaller than the headings.

To create a style from an object

If the Object Styles inspector is not open, enable the Open Object Styles inspector check box in the New Style From dialog box.

You can also create a style from an object by Control-clicking the Styles folder in the Object Styles inspector, choosing New from Selected, and then choosing a style type.

To create a style set from an object

If the Object Styles inspector is not open, enable the Open Object Styles inspector check box in the New Style Set From dialog box.

You can also create a style set from a selected object (or multiple selected objects) by clicking From Selection in the Object Styles inspector. The new style set is added under Style Sets in the Object Styles inspector. If the selected object uses styles that match an existing style set, no new style set is added. CorelDRAW selects the matching style set in the Object Styles inspector.

You can also create a style set from an object by dragging the object to the Style Sets folder in the Object Styles inspector. If you drag the object over an existing style set in the Style Sets folder, the attributes of the object replace the attributes of the style set, and all objects to which the style set has been applied are automatically updated.

To define a style

 

You can also
Rename a style	Control-click a style, click Rename, type a new name, and press Return.
Delete a style	Do one of the following: • Select a style in the Styles folder, and click the Delete style button . • Control-click a style, and click Delete.
Duplicate a style	Control-click a style, and click Duplicate.
Create a child style	Do one of the following: • Select a style in the Styles folder, and click the New Child Style button . • Control-click a style, and click New Child Style.

To define a style set

 

You can also
Rename a style set	Control-click a style set in the Style Sets folder, click Rename, type a new name, and press Return.
Delete a style set	Do one of the following: • Select a style set in the Style Sets folder, and click the Delete style set button . • Control-click a style set, and click Delete.
Duplicate a style set	Control-click a style set, and click Duplicate.
Create a child style set	Do one of the following: • Select a style set in the Style Sets folder, and click the New Child Style Set button . • Control-click a style set, and click New Child Style Set.

The features documented in the Help are available in the full version of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2021. Some features may not be available in this version of the product.