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Working with Templates 343
SELECTOR TOOL.
Now as you edit the text and the anchor point moves, the anchored
object moves too. See the Text Tool chapter (on page 194) for more details.
Changing colors
Editing theme colors individually
To edit a template’s theme colors, right click on one of the larger square named color
patches on the left of the Color Line at the bottom of the window and choose Edit in
the menu that appears. This opens the Color Editor. There will usually be several
named theme colors in the Color Line - hover the mouse pointer over the color to see
the tooltip showing the color name. Sometimes there will also be several colors linked
to a theme color that will change at the same time; these are shown on the Color Line
with smaller color squares, but normally you won’t need to edit these because they
change automatically with the main theme colors.
You can also click on any object in the design to select it and then click a named or
palette color on the Color Line to change the object’s color. But this is not the best or
recommended way to edit the colors in a template, because choosing a palette color
permanently separates the object from the theme colors of the design. It’s better to
edit the theme colors as described above so that all instances of that color, and
shades of that color, are updated in your design.
Once you’ve changed the theme colors in your document, if you then paste in or
import templates which still use the original theme colors, you’ll be presented with a
choice. You may want to import the new objects with their original colors, in which
case choose the ‘Don’t match’ option. But more likely you’ll want them to be changed
to match the colors you’ve chosen for your document, in which case choose the
‘Match’ option. The color matching prompt is shown whenever you import objects
which share a color name with the colors already in your document, where the actual
color values differ. See Color Handling for more information.
Page background color
If you drag a color from the Color Line over the page, and drop it, it will set the page
background to that color.