Expand & Uncheck Stroke

[MahaB82A]

In this video Expand & Uncheck Stroke is adding 3 more layers in layer panel & make all 5 layers as a group. Also added 3 more new layers represent strokes as well. But why stroke is unchecked in the expand window? File is attached

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Because when I replicated the work whether I unchcked the stroke or not result is same.

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[Monika Gause]

That tutorial is bad anyway. THere are a gazillion anchors when using the shapebuilder tool, which is bad pratice.

Why does that even matter to you? Just keep what you want and delete what you don't.

[MahaB82A]

Please upload a similar tutorial.

[Monika Gause]

Exactly what do you expect to learn?

[MahaB82A]

In this case I stuck with expand tool and confused with Magic Wand tool. It is better to upload a tutorial using these two tools inclusive.

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

I don't think it makes a lot of sense to make a tutorial about Expand and Magic wand. 

[MahaB82A]

According to your advice these are not challenging topics . This advice enable me to learn what is in the YouTube about this topics. 

[MahaB82A]

Thanks for all.

[jduncan · Accepted solution]

There was no need for them to uncheck the stroke checkbox as it doesn't apply to the blend graphic they had created. This is why you get the same result no matter if the box is checked or not. They probably did it out of habit or didn't understand how expand works with blend objects. If you use Object > Blend > Expand, you will notice there are no options, each step object in the blend is expanded as a whole.

If you want to better understand how expand works, following the same tutorial, if you run Object > Expand a second time and check to expand strokes, you will see where each fill and each stroke becomes a separate object.