ChemDraw User's Manual - CambridgeSoft

2. Click a color in the Color Wheel.3. If necessary, adjust the hue, saturation,brightness, and RGB components by typingthe values in4. Click OK.The new color is added to the list of OtherColors.Removing ColorsTo remove a color from the Color menu:1. Click the color you want to remove.A highlight box appears around the color.2. Click Remove Color.The color disappears from the list of othercolors. Objects that were drawn in the removedcolor are changed to the Foreground colorTemplates and ColorThe background and foreground colors used in atemplate from the template pop-up palette are notused when the template is drawn in a documentwindow. However, any other colors used in thetemplate are added to the color palette of thecurrent document if they are not already present.This is part of the autoscale feature. For moreinformation, see “Autoscaling” on page 193.Saving Color Palette SettingsYou can save the Color Palette in a Style Sheet orStationery Pad. The Color Palette is saved inaddition to other document settings such as PageSetup settings, Text settings, and Drawing settings.Drawing WithTemplatesTemplate documents are collections of structuresorganized by structural type or functionality. Astructure in a Template document is named atemplate. Use an existing template instead ofdrawing the structure to shorten the time requiredto create documents.The Template documents distributed withChemDraw are stored in the ChemDraw Itemsfolder in the same folder as the ChemDrawapplication.ProNOTE: In ChemDraw Pro, you can define yourown commonly used structures as templates. Any Templatedocuments in the ChemDraw Folder are listed in theWindows menu (Macintosh) or Open Special on the Filemenu (Windows).The Templates ToolThe Templates tool contains a palette from whichyou can select different types of structures orobjects. The Templates tool has two levels:• The first level displays the available Templatedocuments.• The second level displays the templates withineach Template document.TemplateExample 150 dpiProNOTE: In ChemDraw Pro the pop-up menu issegmented if any Template documents are open for editing.The upper segment contains Template documents that arecurrently open for editing.ChemDraw 9 Advanced Drawing Techniques • 133Drawing With Templates