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You may need to resize or reposition a picture after you import it to make it fit properly
within its box.
Moving pictures
You can move pictures inside their boxes with:
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the Picture Content tool
• the Measurements palette
• (Windows only) the Modify dialog box (Item > Modify)
With the Picture Content tool selected, you can click any part of an image, regardless
of its position in its box. You can also nudge a picture in its box by using the arrow keys.
If the Item tool is selected when you are using the arrow keys on the keyboard, the box
will move instead of the picture within the box. See "Moving items" for more information
about moving pictures.
Resizing pictures
You can scale pictures to make them larger or smaller using:
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the Picture Content tool
• the Measurements palette
• the Style menu
• (Windows only) the Item menu (Item > Modify)
After importing a picture into a box, you can choose Fit Box to Picture and Scale Picture
to Box from the context menu (or Style menu). Press the Shift key while resizing a picture
with the Picture Content tool to resize the picture proportionately.
Cropping pictures
If you only want a portion of your image to display, you can manually crop it by adjusting
the size of the box.
Rotating and skewing pictures
Rotating a picture sets it at a different angle within the box, while skewing a picture applies
a slanted look to it.
To rotate a picture, select the Picture Content tool and move the mouse over one of
the picture's corner handles. A Rotation pointer displays according to the selected corner.
Drag the pointer to rotate the picture. You can also enter rotate values for a picture in the
Picture Angle field of the Modify dialog box (Item > Modify > Picture) on Windows, or
the Measurements palette (Home/Classic tab).
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