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Part III Mastering Illustrator You can accelerate, step through, or pause your Actions as follows: n Accelerated: Plays the action all at once — and quickly. This is great for monotonous, repetitive actions, such as renaming figures or adding a tagline. n Step By Step: Plays the action one step at a time. This lets you decide whether you want to perform a step or add in-between steps. n Pause For: Stops at each step for the specified time. This is a good choice if you want to closely examine how something was recorded and want to stop the recording at a. | Part III Mastering Illustrator You can accelerate step through or pause your Actions as follows Accelerated Plays the action all at once and quickly. This is great for monotonous repetitive actions such as renaming figures or adding a tagline. Step By Step Plays the action one step at a time. This lets you decide whether you want to perform a step or add in-between steps. Pause For Stops at each step for the specified time. This is a good choice if you want to closely examine how something was recorded and want to stop the recording at a certain spot. Inserting a selected path You can t record the Pen tool or the Pencil tool but you can record a path. Follow these steps 1. Draw a path. 2. While the path is selected start recording. 3. Choose Insert Select Path from the Actions panel s popup menu. 4. Stop recording. You ve just created an action to place a path. Selecting an object If you want to select an object to use later in your recording you need to apply text to it and then select an object or path first. Follow these steps 1. Select the object or path. 2. Select Show Note from the Attributes panel s popup menu. 3. Type the text you want to apply to the object in the bottom field and then click the Begin Recording button on the Actions panel to record the new setting. 4. When you need to select the object or path choose Select Object from the popup menu to display the Set Selection dialog box as shown in Figure type the name you gave it in the Attributes panel and then click OK. The object or path is now selected. Clearing resetting loading replacing and saving actions Whew Even after creating a bunch of cool actions you want more options. You can clear reset load replace and save actions. Now you can create delete load sets and save to your heart s content by choosing the appropriate item in the Actions panel. The following describes what each option does 580 Customizing and Automating Illustrator 17 Clear Actions Deletes all the action sets in the .