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Selecting and moving images – Apple AppleWorks 5 : Windows 95/NT 4.0 User Manual

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Painting

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You can customize palettes by editing the colors, patterns, gradients, and
textures. You can also load new color palettes. See “Creating custom colors,
patterns, gradients, and textures” on page 5-18.

Selecting and moving images

Before you can change an image, you must first select it.

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Choose Index from the Help menu and type the first few letters of the entry. Double-click the
entry and then double-click a topic.

To select

Do this

Example

A rectangular area

Click the selection rectangle

and drag

it over the area to select. You can select all
or part of an image.

The outline of an image

Hold down Ctrl as you drag the selection
rectangle around the image you want to
select.

Everything in the document

Double-click the selection rectangle

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An irregular shape without
selecting the surrounding
white space

Click the lasso

and drag it around the

area you want to select. The loop closes
automatically.

By color, when you want to
select shapes that are difficult
to lasso

Click the magic wand

and click an

area. AppleWorks selects all adjacent
pixels of the selected color. To select more
than one color area, click the magic wand
and drag it across multiple colors.

Create a style, and then select it

to change the palette settings

To see a style’s properties, click
Edit and then select the style

Properties of the style
Checked Fill/Borderless

In the Help index,

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see:

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