From the course: Visio 2016 Essential Training
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Format shape fills
- The formatting of the shapes you see in a drawing are based on the theme that's being used. Initially we saw shades of blue then we changed the theme in an earlier movie. Now are shapes appear to be transparent and we can see right through to the background. Of course we can override that formatting at any time. There's a couple of different options that we can use to do that. Let's go to our start shape. Give it a click here in our flowchart. Hold down your shift key and click the end shape so we can format both of them at the same time. You can see they're both kind of highlighted or selected. Now any formatting we apply will be applied to both of those objects. And we can do that by going up into the shape styles group here with the home tab of the ribbon selected. And if you wanted to, you could go right up to fill. Now, notice that the text inside is dark. When we choose the fill drop-down and go to a dark color, it's very hard to see that text and you might want to change the…
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