Material

Changes the colouring of the selected 3-D object.

Material

To access this command...

Open the context menu of the 3-D object, choose 3-D Effects - Material tab.

Material

Assigns a predefined colour scheme or lets you create your own colour scheme.

Favourites

Select a predefined colour scheme, or select User-defined to define a custom colour scheme.

Object colour

Select the colour that you want to apply to the object.

Select Colour Through the Colour Dialogue Box

Office lets you define custom colours using a two-dimensional graphic and numerical gradient chart of the Pick a Colour dialogue box.

Press the Colour Dialogue Box button in the Illumination tab of the 3-D Effects dialogue box.

Illumination colour

Select the colour to illuminate the object.

Select Colour Through the Colour Dialogue Box

Office lets you define custom colours using a two-dimensional graphic and numerical gradient chart of the Pick a Colour dialogue box.

Press the Colour Dialogue Box button in the Illumination tab of the 3-D Effects dialogue box.

Specular

Sets the light reflection properties for the selected object.

Colour

Select the colour that you want the object to reflect.

Select Colour Through the Colour Dialogue Box

Office lets you define custom colours using a two-dimensional graphic and numerical gradient chart of the Pick a Colour dialogue box.

Press the Colour Dialogue Box button in the Illumination tab of the 3-D Effects dialogue box.

Intensity

Enter the intensity of the specular effect.

Apply

Click here to apply the properties shown in the dialogue box to the selected object.

Apply

Update

Click here to view in the dialogue box all the properties of the selected object.

Update

Preview Field

Displays a preview of the current selection.

Convert to 3-D

Use this icon to convert a selected 2D object to a 3D object. You can also select several 2D objects and convert them to one single 3D object. To convert a group of 2D objects to 3D, you must first ungroup the selected objects.

Convert to 3-D

Convert to Rotation Object

Click here to convert a selected 2D object to a 3D rotation object. You can also select several 2D objects and convert them to one single 3D rotation object. To convert a group of 2D objects to 3D, you must first ungroup the selected objects.

Convert to Rotation Object

Perspective On/Off

Click here to turn the perspective view on or off.

Perspective On/Off