>Similarly, colour code of text needs to be specified manually rather than from a colour palette. Yes, it does for now. I might write a small colour picker for the tools menu (I've wanted one for other reasons). As the tools menu is easily extensible, this shouldn't be difficult. I added a colour picker to the top of the properties panel. It will copy the RGB value to the clipboard for you to do with as you wish. Handy for all sorts of things. I will eventually allow it to set properties in the properties panel, but the tricky thing is firstly knowing whether the property is a colour, and secondly knowing whether the property (f it is a colour) requires the format #RRGGBB (all text colour properties, because Xerte uses html text) or 0xRRGGBB (all drawing properties) www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte Enjoy. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.