How Do You Separate Stroke and Fill in Illustrator?
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Go to Type > Create Outlines to get the text as a path. Copy it, and Paste in Place (Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-V). Select the copy and change the stroke to white, and select no fill. This should give you two objects, the original text with a fill color and no stroke, and a copied version with only a stroke.

How do you isolate a stroke in Illustrator?

Isolate a path, object, or group

  1. Double-click the path or group using the Selection tool.
  2. Select the group, object, or path and click the Isolate Selected Object button in the Control panel.
  3. Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (macOS) the group and click Isolate Selected Group.

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How do you separate elements in Illustrator?

Click and hold the Eraser ( ) tool to see and choose the Scissors ( ) tool. Click the path where you want to split it. When you split the path, two endpoints are created. One endpoint is selected by default.

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