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• • January 18, 2011 at 9:22 am #58403
    jimmykup

    Member

    Hi everyone,

    Please excuse me if this question has been asked before (heck, I may have even asked this before myself).

    Is it possible to select all objects in a document that share the same style (object, character, paragraph, etc.)?

  • January 18, 2011 at 9:37 am #58404
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    You can find similar objects on the same spread with a plug-in such as likefindslike: https://www.rorohiko.com/wordpr…..findslike/

    But you cannot select objects on different spreads at the same time. Limitation of InDesign. You can use find/change to change objects throughout a document.

  • January 18, 2011 at 9:42 am #58405
    jimmykup

    Member

    Thanks David.

    My problem is that I have logos from various brands littered throughout my catalog. In the future if I want to make every instance of Logo X slightly smaller, I want to be able to do so without having to click on every single one, one-by-one.

  • January 18, 2011 at 10:05 am #58406
    jimmykup

    Member

    Sad realization. Looks like the plug-in you suggested does not work on anchored objects. :(

  • January 18, 2011 at 8:46 pm #58416
    mckayk777

    Member

    What program was it that would let you clone an item then every time you did any changes to the master item all the clones would update.

  • January 19, 2011 at 4:02 am #58418
    Tim Hughes

    Member

    @mckayk Sounds like the behaviour of a symbol in Illustrator and Flash, I may be wrong though

    @ jimmy perhaps a better workflow for such logos would be to use them as placed illustrator files, then at least you could amend the external placed file and simply update it in the ID document

    find and replace can be very powerful as David mentions too

  • January 19, 2011 at 10:16 am #58420
    Rhiannon Miller

    Member

    Do you need to make the frame smaller, or would it do to make the image smaller within the frame? Because if it's the latter then you could maybe try changing the Frame Fitting Options in the object style?

  • January 19, 2011 at 7:48 pm #58427
    Mr.Screens

    Member

    Would it be possible to find anchored objects and replace with contents of clipboard (whereon you'd have a logo of the proper size)? If you have anchored objects that are not logos, you'd have to look at each one, but it would still be faster than selecting each by hand.

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