MACROMEDIA FIREWORKS MX 2004-USING FIREWORKS Use Manual page 171

Showing and hiding slices
Hiding a slice renders the slice invisible in the Fireworks PNG file. You can turn off all or some
web objects. Because slices are web objects, they are listed beneath the Web Layer in the Layers
panel, where visibility can be turned on or off for a selected slice. You can also control slice
visibility through the Tools panel. Hiding a slice object does not prevent the slice from being
exported in the HTML.
To hide and show particular slices and hotspots:
Click the eye icon next to the individual web objects in the Layers panel.
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Click in the Eye column to turn visibility back on. The eye icon reappears when web objects are
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visible again.
To hide or show all hotspots, slices, and guides, do one of the following:
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Click the appropriate Hide/Show Slices button in the Web tools section of the Tools panel.
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Click the eye icon next to the Web Layer in the Layers panel.
To hide or show slice guides in any document view:
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Choose View > Slice Guides.
Changing slice and slice guide color
If the colors used in a document are similar to the slice color, it can be difficult to see slices against
the objects in the document. For ease of viewing, you can assign a new color to selected slices.
Assigning unique colors to individual slices also helps you organize them. You can alter slice guide
color as well.
Note: When you preview your document, deselected slices are visible as a white overlay.
To change the color of a selected slice object:
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In the Property inspector, choose a new color from the color box.
To change the color of slice guides:
Choose View > Guides > Edit Guides.
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Choose a new color from the Slice Color section of the Guides dialog box and click OK.
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Editing slices
In Fireworks you can work with a slice layout as if it were a table in a word-processing application.
When you drag a slice guide to resize a slice, Fireworks automatically resizes all adjacent
rectangular slices as well. In addition, you can use the Property inspector to resize and transform
slices as you would vector and bitmap objects.
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