Changing the appearance of objects – Apple AppleWorks 5 : Mac OS User Manual

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Drawing

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Remember that you can usually reverse your most recent action by choosing
Undo from the Edit menu. To revert to the most recently saved version of your
document, choose Revert from the File menu.

Changing the appearance of objects

Use AppleWorks to change or fine-tune the appearance of objects (or
frames). Your changes affect all selected objects.

Changing lines, borders, colors, patterns, and textures

Use the fill palettes to change an object’s color, pattern, gradient, or texture.
Use the pen palettes to change lines and borders of objects.

To

Select the object(s) and

Duplicate an object

Choose Duplicate from the Edit menu.

Space duplicates evenly

After duplicating the object, move it immediately to a
new position. The next duplicate you create appears at the
same distance from the last copy.

Copy an object and paste it
elsewhere

Click

on the Default button bar, or choose Copy from

the Edit menu. Click where you want the copy to go and
choose Paste from the Edit menu.

Delete an object permanently

Press Delete

Delete an object and store it on
the Clipboard

Click

on the Default button bar, or choose Cut from

the Edit menu. Anything you store on the Clipboard stays
there until you cut (or copy) something else.

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Choose Index from the

or Help menu and scroll to the entry. Then choose a topic from

the list and click Go To Topic.

In the Help index,

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see:

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objects, modifying

Fill sample

Fill color palette

Fill pattern palette

Pen color palette

Pen pattern palette

Fill gradient palette

Pen sample

Pen width palette

Arrowhead palette

Fill texture palette

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