Filling Items with Gradients

You can fill a shape or the background of a Rich Text text object with two colors, so that one color gradually fades into another.

You cannot apply a gradient to:

■         Plain text

■         Images

■         Lined shapes (they must be filled shapes)

To apply a gradient fill:

1        Select the shape or text frame to fill.

2        On the Home or the Insert and Modify tab, in the Items Style section, click Background.

3        In the Background - Fill Settings dialog box, click the Gradient tab.

4        To specify the starting color, click the Full color palette button to the right of the Starting Color box and select a color from the palette or type a hexadecimal value. Click x to close the palette.

5        To specify the starting color, click the Full color palette button to the right of the Ending Color box and select a color from the palette or type a hexadecimal value. Click x.

6        Then, type a Drawing Angle (such as 90) or click the Angle Setting button and specify the type of gradient.

7        Click OK.