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Apple AppleWorks 5 : Windows 95/NT 4.0 User Manual

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AppleWorks 5 User’s Manual

Your changes affect selected objects. If you choose from the fill and pen
palettes when no objects are selected, AppleWorks applies the settings to the
next objects you create.

For information on customizing the palettes, or using custom palettes from
other applications, see “Creating custom colors, patterns, gradients, and
textures” on page 5-18.

To

Select the object(s) and choose

Example
(before and
after)

Change the width, color,
or pattern of a line or
border

From the pen width, pen color, and pen
pattern palettes

Hide a line or border

None from the pen width palette

Show a hidden line
or border

A line width from the pen width palette

Make a line, object, or
frame transparent

The transparent icon from the pen
pattern palette (for a line) or the fill pattern
palette (for an object or frame)

Add, change, or remove
an arrowhead

An arrowhead or Plain Line from the
arrowhead palette

Change the fill color of an
object or frame

A color from the fill color palette

Change the fill pattern,
gradient, or texture of an
object

A pattern from the fill pattern palette, a
gradient from the fill gradient palette, or a
texture from the fill texture palette. (You
can’t add patterns, gradients, or textures to
spreadsheet frames.)

To choose from a fill or pen

palette, hold down the pointer on
the palette control, and then drag

the pointer to your selection