User Guide

Double-click one of the two points at either end of the open segment; the pointer
changes to a pen tip.
To add additional points, click other locations.
When you’re ready to stop drawing and close the shape, click the point at the end of
the open segment.
6 Select the shape’s border and drag it wherever you want it on the sheet.
7 To change the shape’s contours, you must rst make the shape editable, as “Editing
Shapes” on page 200 describes.
To learn about manipulating and aligning shapes, and changing their general object
properties, such as color, border style (stroke), size, orientation, shadows, and more, see
“Manipulating, Arranging, and Changing the Look of Objects” on page 210.
Editing Shapes
You can manipulate and reshape the points and contours of a shape you’ve already
placed on a sheet. Before you can edit a shape in this way, you need to make it
editable.
Here are ways to make shapes editable:
To make a predrawn shape editable, select the shape and then choose m
Format > Shape > Make Editable.
Red points appear on the shape. Drag the points to edit the shape. Later, to edit a
predrawn shape that has been made editable, click it twice slowly.
To make a custom shape editable, click once in the shape to select it, and then click a m
second time to show its editing points.
To learn how to Go to
Change a shape’s contour by manipulating its
points
“Adding, Deleting, and Moving the Editing Points
on a Shape” on page 201
Expand or contract a curve or change its angle “Reshaping a Curve” on page 202
Change the angle between two segments or
change the length of a segment
“Reshaping a Straight Segment” on page 202
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