As you might have noticed, the properties of an object can be changed by selecting the object and then modifying the properties from the Properties panel, but that's not the only option for changing properties. Properties can be changed or modified from the PROPERTIES palette as well. In the following example, we will learn how to apply properties to a selected object using the PROPERTIES palette:

1. To open the PROPERTIES palette, select an object from the drawing area. Now, right-click and select Properties from the context menu or type PR and press Enter to open the PROPERTIES palette. In this case, I selected a door from the drawing and selected the Properties option from the context menu as shown in the following figure:

2. The PROPERTIES palette, with properties such as Color, Lineweight, and Linetype, will show up as shown in the following figure:

3. To modify or add any property on this palette, click on the field next to it and change the respective property. Here, we will add a color to the door using the PROPERTIES palette. 
4. Click on the white box in the Color row under the General tab of the PROPERTIES palette and select a color from the dropdown.
5. Select red from the list or click on the Select Color option at the bottom of the list to select a color from the Select Color window.

6. Press the Esc key after selecting the color and the color will be applied to the selected objects. In this case, red will be applied to the door as shown in the following figure:

In a similar way, you can change other properties too by selecting the respective field from the PROPERTIES palette; just make sure that you have the object selected to change the property.

Now you can see that adding properties can be a time-consuming thing to do if you want to add multiple properties for an object. But if you needed to transfer these properties to another set of objects, this could create issues. Fortunately, though, we have a tool that makes the transfer of properties a breeze. This tool is called Match Properties and it's discussed in the next section.