Quote Originally Posted by handrawn View Post
I hover the mouse over the object and hold down the ALT key and then left-click [which toggles between selecting the object or it's shadow] - can then change the colour [edit - by clicking on the colourbar for example], no need to zoom or change transparency as a matter of course

this works with XDPX [I have some registry tweaks in place, so I don't guarantee it's default behaviour, but you can try it...]
Ypu. That works very well indeed. Excellent tip.

Works in XDPX and XDPX9 and in Photo & Graphic Designer 9.
I don't have any other versions installed, but I assume that this has always been possible.