I think you might like to work through one or two tutorials to learn a bit about the software and the way it works, rskaskiw. There are some that come with Inkscape, in Help > Tutorials, and there are a couple of other tutorials available online. This one could be useful, as well: https://vektorras...

I'm new to Inkscape, and so far, I LOVE it. But I'm have a strange problem. I'm trying to fill text shapes in an .svg file. They are no longer text objects, but part one big object. So I thought it'd be straight forward to use the fill tool. I have threshold set to 100%, but filling still leaves beh...