Formatting Smart Shapes

As you might expect, you use the Properties inspector of Captivate to format your Smart Shapes. In this section, you will discover the main formatting properties of the Smart Shapes object via the following steps:

1. On slide 2 of the Chapter02/takeTheTrain.cptx project, select the rounded rectangle shape.
2. Look at the Style tab of the Properties inspector.
3. In the Fill section, open the Solid drop-down menu.

This menu is one of the many reasons why I love Smart Shapes: because it offers you so many possibilities. Let's review these options one by one:

• Solid Fill: This is the default value. It allows you to define a single solid color as the background of your Smart Shape. Simply use the Fill property next to the drop-down menu you just opened to choose a color with the color picker.
• Gradient fill: This lets you arrange two or more colors in a gradient. This capability is unique to the Smart Shape object. The gradient editor is very similar to the one found...