Either of these methods will call up the Object Properties dialog.  The object properties dialog allows you to change various elements of an object according to which tab is selected.  Following is an explanation of each of the tabs:

Fill
The controls on this panel set the fill style of objects. The fill style of an object determines the appearance of the object's interior.

The fill styles are as follows:

• None - Removes all interior fill from the object.
• Solid - Fills the object with a solid color.
• Pattern - Fills the object with a pattern.
• Gradient - Fills the object with a gradual fade from one color to another.

Line
The controls on this panel set the style, thickness, caps, corners, and color of lines. These properties apply to lines, connector lines, and the borders of shapes and CoolShapes.

The line properties are as follows:

• Line Style - Selects a hairline, wide line, fancy outline, or no line.
• Style - Selects a solid line, or a pattern of dots and dashes.
• Thickness - Sets weight or thickness in points.  Caps - Sets the appearance of ends without line end markers. Caps are only available with the Wide line style.
• Corners - Sets the appearance of the corner intersection of lines that join.
• Corner styles are only available with the Wide line style.
• Color - Sets the color of lines.

Ends
The controls on this panel set the style of line ends. The line ends include arrowheads, lines, squares, circles, and triangles. These properties apply to lines and connector lines.

The ends styles are as follows:

• Start - Sets the starting end of the line.
• End - Sets the end of the line.
• Both Same - Sets both the starting and ending style to the selected start style.
• Line End Size - Sets the size of the line end.

Shadow
The controls on this panel let you set the shadow type, position, depth, and color. These properties apply to any object.

The shadow properties are as follows:

• Style - Sets the style to either no shadow, simple, block, or soft.  Color - Sets the color of the shadow. If you choose the Soft style, which is like a gradient, you can set the blend color.
• Position - Sets the position to either lower left, lower right, upper left, or upper right.
• Depth - Sets the depth of the shadow.

Text
The controls on this panel let you set the font, font size, style, and color of text. These properties apply to both freeform text and label text.

The text properties are as follows:

• Font - Sets the text font.
• Size - Sets the text size in points.
• Font Style - Sets the font style. The style options are bold, italic, underline, and strikeout.
• Text Color - Sets the text color.
• Background Color - Sets the text background color.

A text block can contain any combination of fonts, font sizes, styles, and colors.

General
The controls on this panel let you set the general properties of objects.

The general properties are as follows:

• Name - Assigns identifying text to the object.
• Location - Shows and lets you change the location coordinates of the object.
• Size - Shows and lets you change the size coordinates of the object.
• Layer-  Shows and lets you change the layer on which the object is located.

Hyperlink
A hyperlink is a spot on a Web page that you can click to "jump" to another area. You can assign a hyperlink to any object on your Web page. A hyperlink can jump to another page in your Web site, another Web address, an object on your Web page, a file for downloading, or an E-mail address.

• URL - links to another Web page. Type the Web address of the site to which you want to link.
• Document Page - links to another page in the Web site. Select the page to which you want to link.
• E-Mail Address - links to E-mail. Type the address to which you want to link.  File - links to a file that the user can download. Type the path and filename of the file to which you want to link.
• Object - links to an object on the current page.

Note: If you apply any settings in the object properties dialog when no object is selected, the settings will be applied to the default object properties.