Operation Manual

Figure 91: Area dialog – Area page available bitmaps
Creating new area fills
The following sections describe how to create new fills and how to apply them.
Although you can change the characteristics of an existing fill and then click the Modify button, it is
recommended that you create new fills, or modify custom fills rather than the predefined ones, as
these may be reset when updating LibreOffice.
Creating custom colors
On the Colors page (Figure 92), you can modify existing colors or create your own. You can also
specify a new color either as a combination of the three primary colors Red, Green, and Blue,
(RGB notation) or by percentages of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black (CMYK notation).
Creating new color
1) Select the object you wish to edit.
2) Go to Format > Area on the main menu bar, or click on the Area icon on the Line and
Filling toolbar, or right-click on the object and select Area to open the Area dialog.
3) Click on the Colors tab to open the Colors page.
4) Enter a name for the new color in the Name box.
5) Select whether to define the color in RGB or CMYK. For RGB, specify the red (R), green
(G) and blue (B) component on a 0 to 255 scale. For CMYK, specify the cyan (C), magenta
(M), yellow (Y) and black (K) components from 0% to 100%.
6) Click the Add button. The color is now added to the Color drop-down list.
7) Click OK to save your changes and close the dialog.
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