Make a style once and use it in many places.
To give other objects a styled object’s fills, strokes, and effects, copy its style and paste it from the right-click menu. Text fonts and sizes are copied separately. A color you use in many places can be linked to a variable, so you change it everywhere at once.
Copy and paste a style
You need one styled object and the objects you want to look the same. They can be in different scenes. To learn how to style an object, see Fill, stroke, and shadow.
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Copy the style
Click the styled object to select it. Right-click it and choose Copy Styles. Its fills, strokes, and effects are remembered, and nothing changes on screen.
Clicking the pink card, right-clicking it, and choosing Copy Styles copies its style. Video: Clicking the card with a pink fill, navy border, and shadow selects it, and choosing Copy Styles from the right-click menu copies its style. Nothing changes on screen. -
Select the objects to change
If the objects to change are in another scene, choose that scene in the Scenes list first. Click one object to change. If there are several, hold ⇧ and click the rest.
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Paste the style
Right-click the selection and choose Paste Styles. The fills, strokes, and effects of the selected objects are all replaced with the copied ones. The table below shows what changes on each kind of object. Press ⌘Z once to undo all of it.
With the circle, star, and text selected together, choosing Paste Styles gives all three the pink fill, navy border, and shadow. Video: Clicking the circle, then holding Shift and clicking the star and the text selects all three. Right-clicking and choosing Paste Styles gives all three the pink fill, navy border, and shadow.
| Object you paste onto | What changes |
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| Rectangles, ellipses, paths (including shapes, lines, and pen paths), text, tables | Fills, strokes, effects |
| Images, videos | Strokes, effects (they have no fills) |
| Groups | Effects on the whole group (the objects inside stay as they are) |
| Audio | Nothing |
| Frames | Nothing for now (see the note below) |
You can’t paste styles onto frames
For now, selecting a frame and choosing Paste Styles changes nothing. For a frame’s colors, click the color square at the left of the Fills row to open the Colors window. Then copy each paint over with Copy and Paste in the window’s title bar. Using Copy Styles on a frame and pasting onto other objects does work.
Copy text formatting
You need text with the formatting you want and the text you want to change. This menu only appears when text is selected.
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Copy the typography
Select the text with the formatting you want, right-click it, and choose Copy Typography. Its font, size, weight, italic, line height, letter spacing, underline and strikethrough, and alignment are remembered.
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Paste the typography
Select the text objects you want to change, right-click them, and choose Paste Typography. Only the formatting changes: the words and color stay the same. To match the color too, select the formatted text again, right-click it, and choose Copy Styles. Then select the text objects to change and choose Paste Styles. Strokes and effects change along with it.
Choosing Paste Typography on two subheadings keeps their words and color and gives them the title’s font, size, and weight. Video: With the two subheadings selected together, right-clicking and choosing Paste Typography keeps their words and color, and their font, size, and weight now match the title.
Change a color everywhere at once
For a color you use on many objects, such as a brand color, make a color variable. Click the color square at the left of the Fills row to open the Colors window, then click a color under Variables. The paint is linked to the variable, and the row shows the variable’s name instead of a color value. Later, change just the variable’s value, and every linked paint changes with it.
If you pick a color for a linked paint directly in the Colors window, the link breaks without warning. To create color variables, see Variables. For Variables in the Colors window, see Fills and gradients.
Variable colors, new text formatting, and copying transitions
Colors linked to a variable stay linked when you copy them. When you use Copy Styles on an object with a paint linked to a color variable, the paint on the objects you paste onto links to the same variable. Change the variable’s value, and they all change together.
New text starts with the last formatting. When you change a text’s formatting, the next text you create starts with that font, size, and weight. When you reopen the editor, they go back to the defaults. See Add text.
You can copy transition settings too. Use Copy and Paste in the title bar of the Motion - Transition panel to give the same motion to other scenes or objects. See Fine-tune transitions.
Shortcuts on this page
| Add to the selection one at a time | ⇧+click an object |
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| Select several with a box | Drag on an empty spot |
| Undo the pasted style | ⌘Z |
Updated 10/12/2026 · The videos on this page were recorded in the current editor.