In Illustrator, deleting or editing an effect in multiple objects at once

bring your "appearance" palette window up (choose Window > Appearance)

select all objects you want to remove the effect from
in the appearance palette, click and drag the "fx" icon (green box in attached image) to the palette trash can (red box in attached image).

not sure if you can disable an effect. at least i don't know how.

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When I select more than one object, all the fills and effects disappear in the appearance panel, and It says "Miixed Appearances."  I can understand that, because while the objects might all share the same feather, each one might have different other effects.  So how are you able to do this? Is it a version thing? I'm working with Illustrator CS3.

Regarding the second part of the question, how do I temporarily delete an effect? You know so that I can toggle back and forth between effect and no effect.

Thanks,
John

oh.... my example was made with all objects containing the exact same make-up.

hmm...  not to say it can't be done, but i do not know of a way. too late for the "undo" command i take it? :)

i understand your second part of your question... just don't know if it can be done.

to answer your second part

nopes, there is no way in Illustrator like Photoshop to just "disable/enable" the effects
to overcome this, what i do is to ungroup the effects like shadows, strokes, arrowheads from the original object and put them on separate layers
in that way i can toggle the layers as there is no other way to toggle between the effects itself

Interesting. Do you mean that I can I separate the effects from the object and distribute them to layers? If so how do I do that?

select the effect with the white arrow with plus sign (group selection tool)

I tried selecting the effect with the group selection tool and dragging it to the new layer, but nothing happened.

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If you group your objects before you apply an effect, you will then be able to edit the appearence of the grouped objects at once in the appearence pallette.
As far as turning the effect on or off...you can select the "Reduce to Basic Appearance" button in the appearance pallette, but you will have to "Undo" to put it back. There isn't a way to turn them on or off. You can also just change the VIEW>OUTLINE if you only need to see the edges/basic shapes.