we've made a few changes to the text
sizes in our for sale flyer now let's
learn to format lines as well as change
our background colors we're going to
need to zoom in on our document let's
zoom in to about 75% and scroll down so
we can see our lines and let's select
one of the lines at the bottom of our
document
the first thing we're going to do with
our line is change the color we can do
this by going up to our formatting
toolbar and clicking on the down arrow
beside the line color icon you can see
the color options from our current color
palette are available but we're going to
go to the more line colors options and
choose one of those and our colors
dialog box appears and let's choose one
of the standard colors for our flyer and
our color scheme let's go ahead and
choose a medium blue now we can see our
new color versus our current color down
in the right-hand corner of our colors
dialog box we're going to save that by
clicking on ok and you can see that our
line is now a medium blue now we're
going to format our line by coming back
up to our formatting toolbar and
selecting the line / border style icon
and you can see that we have different
options for line weights to choose from
or we can click on more lines to get
more options for our line now we have
our format auto shape dialog box and we
have all sorts of options that we can
choose for our line you can see that we
can change the color here we can decide
that our line will be a dashed line
let's go ahead and make our line a
dashed line let's choose the square dot
option we can choose a style for our
line let's make it two and a quarter
points you can also choose a specific
wait for your line in order to save the
changes that we've made let's go ahead
and click on OK
and you can see that we now have a
dotted line that is medium blue let's go
ahead and zoom out so that we can see
our publication on one screen
as you can see all of our lines changed
at the bottom of our publication within
some templates publisher will make these
changes automatically and this just
helps make the design process a lot
easier for you we can also modify our
background color for our entire
publication now we're going to go up to
our main menu and choose the format
option and we're going to format our
background choose background and here we
can plot apply a background color we can
choose a color from the colors that are
available or we can choose more colors
our colors dialog box comes up and we're
going to choose a very light blue to
match our other blue and green color
palette we're going to click on OK now
the light blue that we've chosen appears
in our background task pane we have
other options we have the gradient of
the light blue as you can see we have
other textures that we could choose from
but we are going to go up and choose our
light blue color we now have a light
blue background to our for sale flyer
you should now have a basic
understanding of how to format lines as
well as change the background color