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# Setting Object Defaults

When you have created objects, they initially appeared with default settings. Then you changed these settings to make the objects look the way you wanted. You can speed up your form creation by setting these defaults to conform to the way you usually want these objects to look. For example, you can set a standard thickness for your lines or a standard font for your text boxes or data fields. Then you only have to change it when an object deviates from this setting.

Object defaults make it easy to standardize the appearance of your forms. There are two types of defaults. New form defaults set the initial defaults that will be invoked on form creation. You can override these defaults with the form object defaults if you want to change them for a particular form. You can override the form object defaults by defining different settings for an individual object on the Object property page.