How to apply multiple colors or other fills to a shape you draw in Openoffice.org Draw

There are a lot of very nice prefab shapes in Draw. (And available in Writer and Calc too; just choose View > Toolbars > Drawing.)

You can apply one color or other fill to each of them. If you draw a smiley face you either make it blue, or red, or with a rose fill, or whatever. (Let's leave out for now the issue of line color.)

But let's say you want to make each point of the sun a different color, or the eyes in the smiley face a dfiferent color. You can't. Well, not by default.

Here's what you do. Right-click on the shape and choose Convert > To Curve.

After that, right-click on the object again and choose  Ungroup.

You'll get something like this, depending on what the shape is.

And then you can select different parts of the shape and apply different formatting, plus drag parts of it out.

Once you're done formatting it, you should probably re-group. Select all the components, right-click, and choose Group.

The easiest way to select a bunch of small items is to "draw" around them with the arrow tool, the normal default selection tool. In this illustration, all the items for the split-apart octagon would be selected, but nothing from the smiley or star because you have to go ALL the way around an object to select it.

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