Adding color to lines created with the Drawing toolbar -- How to?

[Richard Lionheart]

Hi All,

I'm drawing a diagram using Word in Microsoft Office Pro 2003 on a
WinXP-Pro/SP2 system. I've got a few lines drawn with the Drawing toolbar.

* I selected a line segment in the diagram and then selected a color using
an icon on main toolbar.
* I selected some text outside the diagram and selected a color in the same
manner. That changed the selected text's color.
* I selected the line segment again and noted that a small toolbar had
popped up. I closed it and again selected a color, to no avail.

Is there anyway to color line segments to selected colors?

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Richard,

I'm drawing a diagram using Word in Microsoft Office Pro 2003 on a
WinXP-Pro/SP2 system. I've got a few lines drawn with the Drawing toolbar.

* I selected a line segment in the diagram and then selected a color using
an icon on main toolbar.
* I selected some text outside the diagram and selected a color in the same
manner. That changed the selected text's color.
* I selected the line segment again and noted that a small toolbar had
popped up. I closed it and again selected a color, to no avail.

Is there anyway to color line segments to selected colors?

It would help if you had noted the name of the little toolbar that popped up.
However, I've never been able to color text with the same tool I use to color
a drawing object.

Try turning on the DRAWING toolbar and use the line color tool in that to
change the colors of the lines.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Richard Lionheart]

Hi Cindy,

Try turning on the DRAWING toolbar

I have been using that.

and use the line color tool in that to
change the colors of the lines.

I had NOT been using that!!

Thank you very much for the solution.

Regards,
Richard