Changing the color of items

Dorico Pro Help

Product
Dorico Pro
Version
4.3
Language
English
Document type
Webhelp
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You can change the color of individual notes and items; for example, to distinguish specific items when creating educational worksheets. You can do this for the current layout and frame chain only, or for all layouts and frame chains.

Prerequisite

  • The lower zone is shown.

  • Properties is selected in the lower zone toolbar.

  • If you are in Engrave mode, Graphic Editing Graphic Editing button is selected in the Engrave toolbox.

  • You have chosen the appropriate property scope for local properties.

Procedure

  1. Select the items whose color you want to change. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate Color in the Common group.
  3. Click the color preview to open the Select Color (Windows)/Colors (macOS) dialog.
  4. Select or create the color you want.
  5. Click OK to save your changes and close the dialog.

Result

The color of the selected items is changed. If the property scope was set to Locally, this change only takes effect in the current layout and frame chain.

Tip

You can change the default color of many items, such as by editing the paragraph style of text-based notations.