Using Layer Highlight Colors; To Turn A Guide Path Into A Normal Path; To Change A Layer’s Highlight Color - MACROMEDIA FREEHAND MX 11 Use Manual

To turn a guide path into a normal path:

Double-click the guide path.
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In the Guides dialog box, click Release and then click OK.
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The path returns to its original layer.

Using layer highlight colors

To help distinguish layers and the objects contained within them, you can assign different
highlight colors to layers. The highlight affects the onscreen display color of a selected object's
path, its points, and its transform handles; it does not affect the actual color of the object.
To change a layer's highlight color:
Select Window > Layers to display the Layers panel if it isn't already showing.
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Do one of the following:
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Drag a color from the color box in the Swatches panel or Color Mixer panel to the swatch next
to the layer name in the Layers panel.
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Drag a layer color from another layer in the Layers panel onto the swatch you want to change.
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Drag a color from a stroke or fill color swatch in the Object panel Properties list onto the
swatch in the Layers panel.
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Use the Eyedropper tool to drag a color from an object in the document to the swatch in the
Layers panel.
To set whether the layer highlight color appears on selected paths:
Display general preferences by doing one of the following:
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In Windows, press Control+H, then click the General tab.
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On the Macintosh, press Command+H, then click the General category.
To display path segments in the highlight color, select Highlight Selected Paths. Deselecting
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this option causes only selection handles to appear in the layer highlight color.
Click OK.
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