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200 Color Handling

• Drag and drop a color from the color line onto the item.
• Select your item and then click a color on the color line.
• Select the item and then bring up the COLOR EDITOR (ON PAGE 193) (Ctrl+E).

The editor will display a list of the item's colors in the drop-down menu at the top of the
editor. Select the one you want to edit and then use the color editor as normal to edit it.

Note that when replacing colors in graphics this way, you can replace the use of named
colors with unnamed/local colors, or vice-versa. So for example you could take a button
that uses Theme Color 1 and replace Theme Color 1 with Theme Color 2. From then on,
editing Theme Color 2 in your document would change the button color too. Or replace
Theme Color 1 with a local color, so the button is no longer linked to any theme colors at
all. And you can use this facility to quickly apply named colors to graphics that were not
originally designed to use named colors at all.

The pen item is selected and the Color Editor displays the range of color replacement options
available.

Note that when an object with multiple colors is selected, the dropdown list in the color
editor lists only those colors in it. The Local fill color, Local line color and list of named
colors are not included in the list in this context, to avoid making the list too long and
potentially confusing.