Setting the color of draw objects

Shapes - rectangles, ellipses, polygons and text boxes - have two color properties: fore-color and back-color. Fore-color is the color of the lines and back-color is the color of the inside area of the shape. Only lines have a fore-color.

To set these colors:

  1. Select the object or objects (see Selecting multiple objects for more details).

  2. Click on a color on the color toolbar to set the back-color (see Color toolbar).

  3. Right-click on a color on the color toolbar to set the fore-color.

As an alternative to steps 2 and 3, select the Color command from the Format menu.

To change the default settings for new objects, make sure no objects are selected (to do this, click in a blank area of the drawing) and use the color toolbar to set the colors you want.

Note that setting the back-color to white is not the same as having a transparent object. To do this, set the fill style to None instead - see Line and fill styles.

See:

Formatting a shape for details on other shape formatting.

Draw objects