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sabrown100 > Is the background layer a solid colour? Huh? It seems to me that the importance of that depends on what the user wants to do... Or am I missing something? BoltBait > Select the deleted area and press the Backspace key Brilliant---thanks! Myrddin > Select your area and hit the Backspace key on your keyboard, that will fill the currently selected area... You know you're using a great app when more than one person answers your question with the same (valid) answer. :?) Myrddin > That's... far faster than clicking for the Fill Bucket and filling that way. You're right. It just is. Certainly, knowing that such a thing might have been possible influenced my decision to ask about it. Myrddin > Although, with all that said, if the above does not help, could you be a little more specific please? Your description seems a little vague. Uh-oh, and I'm a technical writer---I'm supposed to be clear and accurate. Maybe I'm not getting enough caffeine... Okay, how's this?: When you select part or all of the Background layer, then press Delete, Paint.NET leaves the deleted area empty (no color). Instead, is there a way to make it fill the deleted area with the current background color? And thanks for not mentioning that I omitted a character in the topic's title. [blush]

When working on the background layer, is there a way to get Paint.NET to automatically fill deleted areas with the current background color? It gets a bit tedious, manually re-filling every time I delete anything.