Gobe Productive User's Guide - Fill Color

- Working in the graphics environment
- Drawing tools
- Pre-defined Shapes
- Pen Attributes
- Fill Color
- Text Color
- Customizing inks
- Customizing ink sets
- Transparency
- Moving items
- Resizing & Rotating items
- Aligning Items
- Reshaping, reorienting & smoothing shapes
- Arranging, grouping & locking items
- Creating Outlines
- Views & Layers
- Styles

# Fill Color

All graphic objects have a fill property. Fill refers to the color, gradient, or pattern inside an item. Any graphic item, including frames, can have a fill property. Fill Color also determines the background color for cells in a spreadsheet.

Examples of pens and fills.

## To Format the Fill for a Graphic Item or Frame

The Fill Color tool on the FormatBar is used for formatting an item's fill. You can also tear-off the Fill Color tool. See the Tear-Off Tools topic for more information about tearing off tools.

### To Format the Fill

1. Select the item you wish to format.
2. From the FormatBar, use the following buttons to format the fill. You can also use the tear-off formatting palette if it is displayed.

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Fill Color tool

Fill Color tool menu bar

Fill Color Tool: This tool sets the color (or fill) of the selected item. Click the tool to display a menu bar. The menu bar contains the following color choices:

| Color. Position the cursor over the tab, then select the color you want from the palette. The palette displays the currently active color set. To display other sets, see the Ink Sets topic for more information. The colors on the palette can be customized. See the Customizing Inks topic for more information.
| Pattern: Position the cursor over the tab, then select the pattern or texture you want from the palette. The palette displays the current set of patterns or textures. To display other sets (including the texture set), see the Ink Sets topic for more information. The patterns or textures on the palette can be customized. See the Customizing Inks topic for more information.
| Gradient: Position the cursor over the tab, then select the gradient you want from the palette. The palette displays the current set of gradients. To display other sets, see the Ink Sets topic for more information. The gradients on this palette can be customized. See the Customizing Inks topic for more information.
| Transparency: Position the cursor over the tab, then select the opacity or transparency of the fill. 100% represents full opacity, 0% denotes total transparency. A transparent fill makes whatever items are behind the item show through. An opaque fill is whatever color, gradient, or pattern you chose. See the Transparency topic for more information.

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