# Select a pattern style for graphic objects

Use the Foreground Color palette, Background Color palette, and Pattern Style toolbar to set up pattern styles for your graphic objects. Pattern styles apply only to solid objects. The pattern and fore color are changed to the foreground color, while the background is changed to the background color.

You can select foreground and background colors before or after you draw an object with a pattern.

Tip: | If you select more than one object and then click a pattern style, the pattern for all selected objects is changed. You can also change an object’s pattern and pattern color using the Property Panel, or by opening the dialog box for the object. If you use the Property Panel, you can change the pattern of multiple selected objects simultaneously. To make the object’s background transparent, select the transparent option from the Back Style toolbar. To open the Back Style toolbar, from the View menu, select Toolbars > Back Styles.

## To select a pattern style for an object

1. Select the object.
2. Click the pattern in the Pattern Style toolbar.

## To change an object’s pattern using the Property Panel

1. Select the object.
2. In the Property Panel, click the box beside the PatternStyle property.
3. Click the pattern you want.

## To change an object’s pattern using the object’s Properties dialog box

1. Double-click the object.
2. In the dialog box, click the pattern you want.

## See also

Change the color of graphic objects

Default colors and styles