The Inspector’s Properties page displays the properties of the current object. The right column shows the current value for each property.

You can set a property value in any of the following ways:

Type the value into the column to the right of the property name.

Note

Yellow highlighting of an entry means that it’s not yet committed or not yet evaluated. Press Enter to commit a change.

Press Ctrl+Enter in the value column to rotate through a list of properties or to toggle logical values, or double-click the value column to do the same.

Select a value from a history list or other drop-down list, when available.

Click the wrench image\WRENCH.gif tool button that appears to the right of the property value. Tools are not available for every property.

The tool button may produce

A property builder in which you can build or select a value. For example, you can display the Color property builder to set the color for an object.

The String Builder dialog box, which makes it more convenient to type a long string.