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The Selector Tool
This tool is a general purpose tool that allows you to select, move, resize and
rotate all objects on your page.
You can do all these things by just dragging on the objects on the page, or on the
selection handles around the object, or you can enter precise numeric values. The
selected object is shown with 8 handles around the outside, and the status line at the
bottom of the screen also tells you what is selected.
Drag on any corner handle to resize an object. Drag just inside the corner handles to rotate.
Nudging Objects
The arrow keys can be used to nudge the selected object, one pixel at a time. If you
hold "Shift", it nudges objects 10 pixels at a time.
Rotating Objects
There are two ways to rotate an object. Either click on the object a second time, so
the selection handles change to show rotation handles, which you can then drag on to
rotate the object. Or, when it's showing the square selection handles, move the
mouse pointer just inside the corner handles until you see the mouse pointer change
to a rotation indicator - you can then also drag to rotate the selected object.
Unusually you can rotate just about anything in Page & Layout Designer, including
photos, headings, even blocks of text.
InfoBar
When an object is selected, the InfoBar - just above your document - shows all the
relevant controls for the current tool. This bar changes depending on which tool is
selected. This is the InfoBar in the
SELECTOR TOOL:
The InfoBar, just above your document, shows controls for the selected tool.