Operation Manual

Colour, Fills, and Transparency 149
Applying solid fills
PagePlus offers a number of ways to apply solid colour fills to objects of
different kinds:
• You can apply solid colours to an object's line or fill. As you
might expect, QuickShapes and closed shapes (see Drawing
and editing shapes on p. 132) have both line and fill properties,
whereas straight and freehand lines have only a line property.
• Characters in text objects can have a background fill, line, and
text colour (i.e., for highlighting, text outlines, and the text fill
itself). Text frames and table cells can have a background fill
independent of the characters they contain.
To apply a solid colour via the Colour tab or Swatches tab:
1. Select the object(s) or highlight a range of text.
2.
Select the appropriate tab, then click
the Fill, Line, or Text button at the top of the tab to determine
where colour will be applied. The colour of the underline
reflects the colour of your selected object.
3. For the Colour tab, select a colour from the colour spectrum or
sliders depending on colour mode selected.
- or -
For the Swatches tab, select a colour swatch from
the Publication palette (commonly used colours and those
previously applied to your publication) or a specific themed or
standard Palette (supplied preset swatches).
Alternatively, use Format>Fill to apply colour via a dialog.