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Changing the type of plot style that you use when you're plotting is a big decision to make. As I've mentioned previously, you can only use color-dependent plot styles, CTB files, or named plot styles, STB files. You cannot have a mixture. You have to use CTB or STB. Now, this particular drawing, if we go into the Page Setup Manager and look at our DWF E Plot Page Setup and go to Modify, it's using STBs. When I click on the Down Arrow there, they're all STB files. So I'll just cancel that there and close the page setup. So we're using named plot styles at the moment. Now, that would means that our P Style Mode Variable would be set to 0. So let's check that. If I do P Style Mode like that and press Enter, it tells me at the moment that it's Read-only. I can't edit it but it's 0 because I'm using named plot styles. Now, if you look up Named Plot Styles in the AutoCAD Help Screens, it'll tell you about P Style Mode. Now I'll just hit Escape there to lose that. Now, let's say that I want to convert my plot styles to color-dependent plot styles; CTB files. Well, I would use the Convert P Styles Command. So let's use that; C-o-n-v-e-r-t, Convert P Styles like that. Now remember this one; Convert P Styles. Write it down and look in your AutoCAD Help and check what this does because once you've made the decision to do this, that's it. There's no turning back. Now, my P Style Mode was set to 0 because I'm using named plot styles; STB files. When I press Enter now, this command converts a named plot style drawing to use color-dependent plot styles. All plot style names will be removed from objects. Named plot style tables will be detached from the drawing. So as soon as I hit OK, that's it; no more STB. It's all CTB. So I OK that, that is now changed. How do I check? I simply type P Style Mode like so and press Enter and you'll see that the P Style Mode has changed to 1, which is telling me now that I'm using color-dependent plot styles. CTB files. It's Read-only. I can't change that. That Convert P Styles changed it for me. So I'll press Escape there. Let's check whether I've got CTB files now. Let's go to the Page Setup Manager, go to my DWF E Plot Page Setup and click on Modify. You'll notice now, look; the Named Plot Style 2 STB is missing. It can't be used because we've changed our P Style Mode to 1 but notice, look. All of my CTB files are back. There's my Red Black LWT CTB. So if I change it to that and I OK that and I say Yes to that and I close, if I do a preview of that now, you'll see that everything looks the same because the changes haven't been made in the same way. So we'll exit that preview. But if I use one of the default CTBs, let's say Monochrome and I modify my page setup and I go to Monochrome CTB and OK that and say Yes to that and then close the Page Setup Manager, if I preview that you'll see that everything plots in Monochrome using the CTB settings. So as you can see there, I've changed this entire drawing now to CTB files instead of STB files. So I'm using color-dependent plot tables instead of named plot styles. So be careful when you make that change. There is no turning back once you've done it. Remember; you cannot use a combination of CTB and STB files. So when you change your plot styles using Convert P Styles, it is a permanent change.