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4. At the top of the Swatches panel, click the Stroke icon to bring it to the
front of the stack.
Click an icon to bring it to the top
The fill and stroke icons in the and make that attribute active. Note:
Swatches panel are used to determine You can press the X key to
which attribute is active — in other switch the active attribute
words, which would be changed by between Stroke and Fill.
clicking a swatch in the Swatches panel.
Clicking one of these buttons brings
it to the front of the stack, making it
active, so you can change the color of
that attribute.
You can also use the same icons at the
bottom of the Tools panel to change The same options are
the active attribute. available in the Tools panel.

5. In the Swatches panel, click the light brown swatch in the third row.
Note:
Because the Stroke icon is active in the Tools panel, the color of the selected object’s
stroke (border) changes to light brown. It is very easy to forget
to check which icon
Use this swatch for (fill or stroke) is on
the stroke color. top of the stack. If you
forget and accidentally
change the color of the
wrong attribute, simply
undo the change (press
Command/Control-Z)
and bring the correct
attribute to the front
before changing colors.
The top icon determines what
attribute will be changed when
you click a swatch in the panel.
6. In the Tools or Swatches panel, click the Fill icon to bring it to the front of
the stack. In the Swatches panel, click the black swatch in the first row.
Because the Fill icon is the active attribute, clicking the black color swatch changes the
fill color of the selected object.
Use this swatch for
the fill color.

Because the Fill icon is on top,
clicking a swatch changes the
object’s fill color.

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