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Edit the Over state

To create rollover effects, you'll edit the Over and Down states of the button, so that the button changes when you point to it (Over state) or click it (Down state). First, you'll edit the Over state. To make the text stand out, you'll change the fill of the inner ellipse to yellow. Then, you'll stretch the text and shape it with an envelope.

  1. Click the Over tab.
  2. Using the Pick tool Lets you select, move, and resize objects, click outside the stage to deselect all objects, and then click the inner ellipse to select it.
  3. On the color palette, click the yellow color swatch to fill the inner ellipse with yellow.
  4. Using the Pick tool, click the text to select it.

    5. A set of eight selection handles displays around the text.
  5. To stretch the text so that it fills the inner ellipse, drag the top-middle selection handle upward, and then drag the bottom-middle selection handle downward.

    6. Click here to see how the text should look now.
  6. Open the Interactive tools flyout Gives you access to tools that let you apply effects to objects interactively, and click the Interactive envelope tool Lets you shape objects .
  7. Drag the top-middle node of the envelope upward to stretch the text in the middle.
  8. Drag the bottom-middle node of the envelope downward.

    9. Click here to see how the envelope should look.

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