Apple numbers User Manual

    Working with Shapes, Graphics, and Other Objects 

 

Open the Colors window by clicking Colors in the toolbar or clicking a color well in one 
of the inspectors.

Click anywhere in the color wheel. The selected color is displayed in the color box at 
the top of the Colors window.

To make the color lighter or darker, drag the slider on the right side of the Colors 
window.

To make the color more transparent, drag the Opacity slider to the left or enter a 
percentage value in the Opacity field. 

To use the color palette, open it by dragging the handle at the bottom of the Colors 
window. Save a color in the palette by dragging a color from the color box to the color 
palette. To remove a color from the palette, drag a blank square to the color you want 
to remove.

To match the color of another item on the screen, click the magnifying glass to the left 
of the color box in the Colors window. Click the item on the screen whose color you 
want to match. The color appears in the color box. Select the item you want to color in 
the spreadsheet, and drag the color from the color box to the item.

You can fill a shape, text box, table, table cell, chart background, or chart series with an 
image.

Select the object you want to fill with an image.

If the Graphic Inspector isn’t open, click Inspector in the toolbar and click the Graphic 
Inspector button.

In the Graphic Inspector, choose Image Fill or Tinted Image Fill, and then choose an 
image. 

You can also drag an image file from the Finder or Media Browser to the image well in 
the Graphic Inspector or directly to a table cell or chart series. 

Use the pop-up menu to 
set the size of the image 
within the object.

To change the image, 
drag an image to the 
image well.