Ha! The adobe forum interface didn't let me know I was only entering a subject above - oh well. To re-iterate the old fireworks 8 would let me align gradient fill controls of multiple vectors to produce what amounted to a continuous fill across the mutiple elements - this seems to have vanished as you lose selection of the other vectors as soon as you click on the gradient fill control of one to move or rotate it etc. Is this functionality hidden or effected in some otherway in CS6?
Paul