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Editing objects, layout parts, and the layout background
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Showing text or field boundaries
Adding shadows and padding to layout objects
Formatting popover buttons and popovers
You can format the appearance of popover buttons — including the border, fill, and label — and
popovers — including the border, title, and content area (the area in which objects are placed).
Note Your formatting changes are saved on this layout only. To save changes as a style that can be
applied to other popover buttons or popovers, see
Creating and working with styles for layout
objects, parts, and the layout background. Or, to save changes to a theme, see Saving a layout
theme.
To format a popover button:
1. In Layout mode, select the popover button.
2. Click Inspector in the layout bar, then click Appearance.
3. Do one or more the following.
To format a popover:
You format the popover and the popover content area separately.
1. In Layout mode, select the popover.
2. Click Inspector in the layout bar, then click Appearance.
To Do this
Change the line style, color, and fill
attributes of the popover button
Choose the line style, color, and fill options in the Graphic area.
See Setting the fill, line style, and borders for objects, layout
parts, and the layout background.
Change the format of the popover
button’s label
Select the popover button’s label, then:
• Choose options in the Text area.
• Or, use the text options in the formatting bar. If you don’t see
the formatting bar, click Formatting
in the layout bar.
See Formatting text.
Add shadows to the popover
button
In the Advanced Graphic area, select Outer Shadow,
Inner
Shadow, or both. Then click to change effects for the
shadow.
See Adding shadows and padding to layout objects.
Change the padding of the
popover button
In the Advanced Graphic area, for Padding, specify values (in
points) for Left, Right, Top, and Bottom.
See Adding shadows and padding to layout objects.