Exploring the Appearance panel

- [Instructor] In this movie we're going…to take a look…at the appearance panel…and I'm working…in this file…which you may have access to,…although you could work along…with any file of your own.…And in this file I have a rectangle.…Very simple,…and it's using the default appearance…for Illustrator objects…as they're drawn,…which is a white fill and a black stroke.…So if I select that,…and now I make my way over…to the appearance panel…which is on the right hand side of this interface.…

If you're not seeing it there,…then go to the window menu…and choose it from that list,…so you'll be able to see that.…And you can see here…that I've got a path selected,…it has a black one point stroke…and a white fill.…And the fill is highlighted at the moment…I've got this small area just here,…and if I click there,…you'll see that…I've actually got access to the swatches panel,…just as I would if I clicked up here.…And that's a really handy thing…about this particular panel,…it actually allows you…to get into several of the panels…without leaving this dialogue.…