Apple Numbers '08 - Manual (Page 162)

162 Chapter 8 Working with Shapes, Graphics, and Other Objects
To select a color:
1 Open the Colors window by clicking Colors in the toolbar or clicking a color well in one
of the inspectors.
2 Click anywhere in the color wheel. The selected color is displayed in the color box at
the top of the Colors window.
3 To make the color lighter or darker, drag the slider on the right side of the Colors
window.
4 To make the color more transparent, drag the Opacity slider to the left or enter a
percentage value in the Opacity field.
5 To use the color palette, open it by dragging the handle at the bottom of the Colors
window. Save a color in the palette by dragging a color from the color box to the color
palette. To remove a color from the palette, drag a blank square to the color you want
to remove.
6 To match the color of another item on the screen, click the magnifying glass to the left
of the color box in the Colors window. Click the item on the screen whose color you
want to match. The color appears in the color box. Select the item you want to color in
the spreadsheet, and drag the color from the color box to the item.
Filling an Object with an Image
You can fill a shape, text box, table, table cell, chart background, or chart series with an
image.
To fill an object with an image:
1 Select the object you want to fill with an image.
2 If the Graphic Inspector isn’t open, click Inspector in the toolbar and click the Graphic
Inspector button.
3 In the Graphic Inspector, choose Image Fill or Tinted Image Fill, and then choose an
image.
You can also drag an image file from the Finder or Media Browser to the image well in
the Graphic Inspector or directly to a table cell or chart series.
Use the pop-up menu to
set the size of the image
within the object.
To change the image,
drag an image to the
image well.