Web Designer Text/color problems

[jgnewyork]

I have searched everywhere I can find and seems there is no reference to changing text colors. The only feature I found to color text seems to be using the color editor and selecting "local line color". It worked inconsistently, and most of the time the text was an approximation to the selected color and a hollow outline sort of alphabet. Is it possible to change font/text colors? Being new, I hope someone has a "dahh...it's so simple...
Thanks

[pauland]

Use the text tool. Select the text. Set the FILL colour.

[ss-kalm]

Depending on how you have your colours set - most users seem to have left click to set fill colour, and right click to set line colour (Utilities > Options > View > Right click on color), select the text, left click a colour on the colour bar to select the text fill colour, and right click to select the text line colour.

[steve.ledger]

Keith, Web Designer doesn't have those options.
It's either popup menu off or on (in registry).
This can be toggled using XaReg though.

[Ross Macintosh]

jgnewyork - to bring it to its simplist, select your text object and then just click on the colour you want from the palate of colours at the bottom of the Xara-WD window.

[steve.ledger]

Ross, by default - clicking will show the popup.

Unless you changed this by using XaReg, the popup shows and gives two options as show.
Click 'Set Fill Color' to change the text colour.

[ss-kalm]

Keith, Web Designer doesn't have those options.
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Darn it ... I knew that ... It was late forgive me!

[gwpriester]

It's one of the "improvements" that make Web Designer easier for new users.

[covoxer]

It's one of the "improvements" that make Web Designer easier for new users.

I hear you.

[jclements]

Hey, Gary.

For once I thought I'd run with the out-of-the-box XWD settings rather than "suggesting" alternatives. In otherwords, "give it a chance".

Using the defaults for coloring in WXD have been "interesting". Most of the time I've hung in there but there have been times when tempatation got the best of me and I relapsed and used XaraXtreme instead. Your tip about a Shift-clicking on the color palette for Line Color has helped to keep me from "relapsing". Its tough breaking bad habits/addictions.

I see now your subtle hint has not fallen on deaf ears.