Adobe InDesign Work Area, Tools, Palettes

Now look further down in the Tools Palette. These are the swatches — you can assign colours to items on your page through these. You can see the fill colour and the stroke (outline) colour. The little arrow on the top right will allow you to swap the two colours. If you have just been working on the fill colour, you can now work on the stroke colour by clicking on the stroke colour icon or by pressing you can just press X (make sure no text is selected). This also works in reverse — if you were working on your stroke colour and now you want to work on your fill colour, click on its icon or press X. You can set your swatch to the default colours by clicking on the very small icon on the bottom left or just by pressing D (again make sure you haven't selected any text).