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- If there's a downside

to dynamic effects,



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which there isn't, I love them,



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it's that they can impede your ability to



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interpret an existing document.



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For example, every once in a while



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I'll open something that

I made, say a year ago,



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and then I'll click on

what appears to be a path



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but it's not really there.



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Ah, I see we have a ghost

object in our midst.



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Oh sure I could reach back into the



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deep recesses of my

mind and try to remember



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what I did, but why waste

a perfectly good brain



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remembering things, especially when,



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thanks to the graphic styles panel,



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I don't have to.



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Just as the swatches panel allows you



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to collect colors, gradients and patterns,



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the graphic styles panel

allows you to collect



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combinations of fills,

strokes and dynamic effects.



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That is to say, anything that you can see



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in the appearance panel.



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This is great news for three reasons.



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First, it means that you can capture



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a collection of appearance attributes



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and later re-apply them to

another object or layer.



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Second, you can link an object to a style



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so that updating the style

updates the object in kind.



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And third, you can

combine multiple styles.



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Forget how you did that

one thing that one time?



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Good for you.



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Seriously, I don't even

remember what remembering is,



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and yet I somehow managed to

record the following movies.