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Find and change objects

You can use the Find/Change command to find and replace the attributes and effects applied to objects, graphics frames, and text frames. For example, to give drop shadows a uniform color, transparency, and offset distance, you can use the Find/Change command to search for and replace drop shadows throughout a document.

Choose Edit > Find/Change.
Click the Object tab.
Click the Find Object Format box, or click the Specify Attributes To Find icon .
On the left side of the Find Object Format Options dialog box, select a type of formatting, specify the format attributes, and then click OK.
Make sure that the categories you want to search for are in the appropriate state. You can use one of three states for each Effects category: turned on, turned off, or ignored. For example, setting Drop Shadow to On includes drop shadow formatting in the search; setting Drop Shadow to Off searches for objects in which drop shadow formatting is turned off; setting Drop Shadow to Ignore leaves drop shadows out of the search.
If you want to apply formatting to the object found, click the Change Object Format box, or click the Specify Attributes To Change icon in the Change Format Settings section. Then select a type of formatting, specify the format attributes, and click OK.
Click the Find and Change buttons to format the text.

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Dave Saunders said on Sep 5, 2007 at 2:22 PM :

Seems to me that step 6 should read: Click the Find and Change buttons
to format the objects.

Dave Saunders said on Sep 5, 2007 at 2:25 PM :

With some help from an Adobe insider, I've just discovered that if you
select text within a story and then set formatting on the Change side
of the Find/Change Object dialog, you can format the text frames of
the story.

If you have a selection in the text, then only the frames associated
with the selection are formatted when you click Change All, while if
you have just an insertion point active, all the frames of the story are
formatted.

This finally makes it possible to apply object styles to a story all in
one go!

Bob - Adobe Writer said on Sep 5, 2007 at 2:44 PM :

Great tip. Thanks!