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Editing Similar Shapes with Global Edit

In this project, you used the Select>Similar menu to Start Editing Similar
select and edit all shapes with the same fill color at Shapes Together
one time . Illustrator includes a related option to identify Click the arrow
similar shapes based on their appearance, size, or both . button to define
the parameters of
When an object is selected on the artboard, you can click the search.
the Start Global Edit button in the Quick Actions section
of the Properties panel, or click the Start Editing Similar
Shapes Together button in the Control panel to find
other objects that match the current selection .
When you enter the Global Edit mode, the software highlights
Clicking the arrow button to the right of either button opens other shapes that match the attributes of the original
a pop-up panel of preferences, where you can define the selection . (The highlight can be difficult to see, depending on
attributes you want to include in the search .
the actual artwork you are building .) Changes to the selected
Appearance refers to attributes listed in the Appearance object are also reflected in the highlighted shapes .
panel — fill and stroke, opacity, effects, and so on . Size refers
to the physical dimensions (height and width) of the object . When you are finished editing, you can click the Stop Global
You can also determine which artboards to include in the Edit button or simply click away from the original selection to
search, as well as whether to include objects on the canvas exit this mode .
(pasteboard) outside the artboard boundaries

In this example, we selected Shape 1 and chose the Match Changing the fill color of the selected shape also changes the
Appearance option . Five objects are not highlighted: fill color of all highlighted shapes .

Shapes 2 and 6 Different fill color Match Appearance is active
Shape 7 Different stroke weight
Shape 9 Different shape
Shape 11 Applied drop shadow

Note that Shape 5 is selected even though it is a different size
than Shape 1 .

Shape 6 is not selected because different types of objects
are not considered to match; a 13 1 13 ellipse will not be
identified if the original selection is a 13 1 13 rectangle .

In this second example, we selected Shape 1 and chose the Match Size is active
Match Size option . Only Shapes 5 and 9 are not highlighted .

Because some of the identified objects have different style
attributes (the drop shadow), a warning notes that attributes
of the selected item will be copied to all highlighted objects .
After changing the
fill color of Shape 1
and dismissing the
warning message, all highlighted objects now have a green fill
color . The drop shadow effect that was previously applied to
Shape 11 has been removed because Shape 1 has no applied
drop shadow .

Project 1: Campground Icons 85