Use default object styles

For each new document, the Object Styles panel lists a default set of object styles. Whenever you create an object, an object style is applied to it. By default, if you create a text frame, the [Basic Text Frame] object style is applied. If you draw a path or shape, the [Basic Graphics Frame] object style is applied. If you place an image or draw a placeholder shape that has an X in it, the [None] object style is applied. You can select a different object style to use as the default for each of these object types.

To change the default style for a text frame, choose Default Text Frame Style from the Object Styles panel menu, and then select the object style.
To change the default style for a graphics frame, choose Default Graphics Frame Style from the Object Styles panel menu, and then select the object style.
To change the default style for any object type, drag the icon that marks the default object type from one object style to another.

Note: If you select an object style when no frame is selected, that object style becomes the new default object style for text or graphics, depending on which tool is selected in the toolbox.

You can edit the [Basic] styles, but you cannot delete them.

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amconcepcion said on Sep 12, 2007 at 7:49 AM :

There's an error here. The page describes ID's three object types: text frame, shape/drawn path, and placed image/placeholder shape; then says "you can select a different object style to use as the default for each of these object types." But the subsequent instructions only explain how to change the default for the first two object types. There is no way to change the default of a [None] Object Style for the third object type, placed images/placeholder shape. (I wish there was a way, but there's not.)

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Use default object styles

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