Changing colour of text in dreamweaver CS5.5

Before I was using Dreamweaver 8 and really liked how handy all the menus were, but since getting Windows 7 I have had to upgrade to Dreamweaver CS5.5 and I am stuggling to do the most simple of tasks which is very annoying.
Anyway is there anyway to add text colours box to the bottom properties bar so I can just highlight the text I want on a page and then choose the colour I want the word changing to?
If not what is the easiest way to just change the colour of highlighted text?
Please help,
Thanks.

sammyg227 wrote:
thanks, I found that but when I change the colour of the h3 headings, it changes all h3 headings on all pages which is not what I wanted.
You can avoid that by doing something like this:
1) Create a style like this:
.green {
color: green;
2) Create your HTML like this:
<h3 class="green">This is in Green</h3>
This should fix it for you.
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