Object's "Appearance" is stuck
Have been working with the functionality of the Appearance window with great success for quite a while. Today, for no apparent reason, almost every new object I create (from any drawing tool) inherits one of the Appearance attributes that I had previous assigned to a different object. Let's say that I created a line and then applied an Appearance in which I added an additional stroke. Great. Normally, I if I start a brand new object with any of the drawing tools, the new object would have the default stroke and fill features. Not any more. Now, every object I draw has the Appearance features I defined previously. But here's the weird part... If I look at the Properties ribbon or at the fill and stroke color pickers, it doesn't show the object having those Appearance properties - it just shows the default values. Moreover, if I open the Appearance window, it also does not show that any new appearance attributes have been assigned. Very weird. I thought that maybe I had accidentally defined a new Brush or a new Graphic Style and accidentally applied them, but they both seem to be typical default values. I've updated, shut-down & rebooted, but no luck. Even the stroke weight is wrong. Bizarro.
Eric VanDeGenachte
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Eric VanDeGenachte
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I believed I may have fixed it. Apparently, when I opened the Appearance window, I saw a tiny icon in the upper right hand corner. When I hovered over it, it said, "Indicates Appearance Contains Paint." I don' t know what that means, but I was able to get my features to look normal again once I toggled the icon.