Fill tool

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What it does:

Fills a space with a specified colour.

• If you click on an annotation using the fill tool, the annotation is coloured in.
• If you click on a blank page, the entire page will change colour (very useful for changing the background colour).
• If you click inside an annotation or shape, that space will be filled.
• If you click on text, that word is coloured.

Where it is:

In the Toolstore.

Right click:

No right click functionality.

What it can be used for:

Changing the background colour quickly, creating filled shapes to use in reveal activities, colour worsd in a text for analysis etc.

Watch out for:

If you are trying to fill a shape and there is a tiny gap in the edge of that shape (as can often happen if using the Pen tool to draw shapes), you can 'flood' the page - i.e. the entire page will change colour.

Techniques:

This tool is used in the following techniques:

 Parts of speech - using the fill tool to colour text for analysis.

 Behind the box - using the fill tool to create a solid shape.