Using Styles, Symbols, and URLs
Adobe FireWorks provides three panels in which you can store and reuse styles, symbols, and URLs. Styles are stored in the Styles panel, symbols are stored in the Library panel, and URLs are stored in the URL panel. By default, all three panels are organized in the Assets panel group.
The Styles panel contains a set of predefined Fireworks styles to select from. In addition, if you have created a combination of strokes, fills, filters, and text attributes and want to reuse it, you can save the attributes as a style. Rather than rebuilding attributes each time, you can simply save them in the Styles panel and then apply that combination of attributes to other objects.
Fireworks has three types of symbols: graphic, animation, and button. Each has unique characteristics for its specific use. You can create new symbols, as well as duplicate, import, and edit symbols, using the Library panel. For information on specific features built into the animation and button symbols, see Creating Animation and Creating Buttons and Pop-up Menus.
A URL, or Uniform Resource Locator, is an address of a specific page o r file on the Internet. If you are using the same URL many times, you can add it to the URL panel. You can organize and group your URLs in URL libraries.
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