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Quick Properties is a new feature of AutoCAD 2009. What it allows you to do is quickly view the properties of an object without having to right click and go to the Properties Palette. It's controlled by the QP here down on the Status Bar so if I right click over QP and go to Settings, you will see the Quick Properties Settings now form part of the Drafting Settings like Snap and Grid, Polar Tracking, Object Snap and Dynamic Input. So Quick Properties; let's first of all switch it on and what we can do is we can display Quick Properties of any object. Let's do that; for any object. The Location Mode is that it positions it by the cursor; the crosshair on the screen and the distance from the crosshair is 50 pixels right now. So let's increase that now to 75 pixels and also as well, it's go Auto-Collapse. What that means is Auto Collapse is that it will collapse the Quick Properties Box to make it smaller. So the default height at the moment is five rows. Let's change that to seven and what I'm going to do now is OK that and Quick Properties is now on. So if I now select an object, there's the Quick Properties there. So what I can do now is I can actually change the information here on this particular object without having to right click and go to the Properties Panel. So I can change the color there, for example, to ByLayer and notice the layer is Zero and the light type is also By ÐLayer so notice I can change this information as and when I need to. So let's just close that for a second. You'll get prompted now that Quick Properties will be turned off and it will close the panel. Notice QP goes off on the Status Bar. I'm going to hit Escape there now. I'm going to select all of the objects like I did in the previous exercise and then I'm going to switch QP on. It automatically gives me all the objects there and if I scroll down the list now, you can see that there isn't a scrolling option because it's got objects of different colors and line types. If I select color now and set them all to ByLayer, they all go to the correct color for Layer Zero. The line type is also ByLayer and the layer is Zero. I can close that panel now, like so. Again, I'll be prompted saying that Quick Properties will be turned off so I close the panel, hit Escape and as you can see now, Quick Properties have allowed me to quickly work on the object. So let's do the same again down here. Let's switch QP on this time. I'm going to left click, drag, click again. It comes on straightaway. I change the color there again to ByLayer. So I scroll up the list and ByLayer. I change the line type there also to ByLayer. I hit Escape to deselect and now because QP is on, it doesn't prompt me to switch off the panel. Let's do the same again. Left click, drag, left click. This time it's telling me the color is magenta. I want that ByLayer so I change it again. Line type is ByLayer. The only one that doesn't appear there notice is line weight. That isn't there. So what I need to do there is actually change the line weights in the Properties Panel. So what I would do is I would close this here, close the panel, go up here to Properties, change the line weight there also to ByLayer. So it doesn't display everything. It depends on what settings you have in the drawing. But as you can see, I've changed all of those using the Quick Properties Panel.