: Illustrator: Editing a custom graphic style I created an additive graphic style that includes a few effects, and applied this style to a few objects. Now I'd like to make a change to this

@Harper654

It's going to be easier to just change the style using an existing object (that it's already applied to) and drag that object on to the style to redefine it.
That way you'll be able to see how your changes look in context.

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@Lengel450

This can now be done thus:

1) Apply the style to redefine to an existing object.

2) Change the colours, etc of that object as desired.

3) Drag the object to the Graphic Styles panel, hover the cursor over the style to redefine and hold down "Alt" (Mac) before dropping it in to the Graphic Style swatch.

That's it.

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@Holmes874

You should create a new graphic style and just Alt-drag (or Opt-drag on Mac) it onto the old style you want to replace.

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@Steve758

Select the style you'd like to edit in the graphic style menu
Switch to Appearance panel and edit any appearance item (like fill color or effect for example)
Go to Appearance panel menu, and select: "Redefine graphic style style_name_from_step_1"
Done!

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@Cugini998

what worked for me is this:


with nothing selected, click the style.
go to Appearance, do the mods you need, drag the little preview icon left of the
name to the styles window, overwriting the previous style.
in order to overwrite a style, hold Ctrl+alt and drop it on top of the old one.
all previously styled objects adopt the new style.


best of luck to you guys!

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@Hamm6457569

There isn't a direct way to edit a graphic style. varun's answer will handle the situation where all of the objects are in the same document.

If you want to save a style so you can use it again in other documents, select the layer that has the modified style applied and choose "New Graphic Style" from the Graphics Styles panel flyout menu. It will then be available in new documents that you create (handy when you're building multiple documents for a website comp, an ad campaign or corporate identity).

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@Caterina889

I tried the same but changed the stroke for three objects,

With the selection tool(V), select one object then hold shift and select the other objects, then apply outer glow and change the value to 5 px.

Should work.

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