Customizing available wallpaper

    You can modify a wallpaper in the Accents window or create and add a new custom wallpaper to the Accents window. Any changes you make also appear in the Wallpaper pop-up palette of the Tools window.

    Note: This section is about editing the wallpaper palette available in the Accents and Tools windows. It is not about changing the wallpaper of an item in your document.

    When you customize a wallpaper in the Accents window, the change also affects any place in the document where you used the previous wallpaper.

    Changes you make to the wallpaper palette apply only to the Tools and Accents windows of the current document, but you can save the settings as a custom palette and use it in other AppleWorks documents.

Modifying a wallpaper

    To modify an existing wallpaper:
    1 Choose Edit Wallpaper from the Options menu.
    2 In the Accents window, select the wallpaper you want to edit.
    3 Make the desired changes:
    • To change the color of one or more pixels, select a color from the Color pop-up menu, then click or drag in the right box.
    • To make all pixels the same color, select a color from the Color pop-up menu, then click Fill.
    • To change how often the wallpaper repeats, choose different values in the Width and Height pop-up menus.
    • To delete the wallpaper (making all pixels white), choose Clear from the Edit menu.
    • To undo all of your changes, click Revert.

Replacing a wallpaper with a custom wallpaper

    To add a custom wallpaper to the Accents window:
    1 In a drawing or painting document, create an object or image that contains the wallpaper you want.
    2 Select a drawn object or an area of a painted image that you want to use as a wallpaper.
    3 Choose Copy from the Edit menu.
    4 If necessary, open the document to which you want to add the custom wallpaper.
    5 If the Accents window is not open, choose Show Accents from the Window menu.
    6 Click the wallpaper tab:
    7 Double-click the wallpaper you want to replace.
    8 Choose Paste from the Edit menu.
    9 To specify how often the wallpaper repeats, choose values from the Width and Height pop-up menus. (The smaller the values, the more often the wallpaper repeats.)

Copying a wallpaper from one Accents window to another

    If you've created a custom wallpaper, you can copy it to the Accents window of another document. This is useful if you've created a wallpaper that you'd like to use elsewhere.

    To copy a wallpaper between palettes:
    1 Open the document that has the wallpaper you want to copy.
    2 If the Accents window is not open, choose Show Accents from the Window menu.
    3 Click the wallpaper tab:
    4 Double-click the wallpaper you want to copy.
    5 Make a note of the width and height values.
    6 Choose Copy from the Edit menu, then click OK.
    7 Open the Accents window of the document to which you want to copy the wallpaper.
    8 In the wallpaper panel of the Accents window, double-click the wallpaper you want to replace.
    9 Set the width and height to the values you noted in step 5.
    10 Choose Paste from the Edit menu and click OK.

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