Operation Manual

Colour, Fills, and Transparency 125
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 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.
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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.