9.3

Creating text and picture boxes....................................................................................68
Resizing boxes...............................................................................................................69
Locking box and picture proportions............................................................................69
Reshaping boxes...........................................................................................................70
Adding frames to boxes................................................................................................70
Applying colors to boxes..............................................................................................71
Applying blends to boxes.............................................................................................71
Merging and splitting boxes.........................................................................................72
Adding text and pictures to boxes................................................................................72
Changing box type........................................................................................................73
Creating a box from a clipping path.............................................................................73
Working with lines................................................................................................73
Creating lines................................................................................................................73
Line modes for straight lines.........................................................................................74
Resizing lines.................................................................................................................74
Reshaping lines.............................................................................................................75
Controlling line appearance..........................................................................................75
Joining lines..................................................................................................................75
Manipulating items...............................................................................................76
Selecting items..............................................................................................................76
Moving items.................................................................................................................76
Cutting, copying, and pasting items.............................................................................76
Controlling the stacking order of items.........................................................................76
Grouping items.............................................................................................................77
Duplicating items..........................................................................................................78
Spacing and aligning items ..........................................................................................78
Rotating items...............................................................................................................79
Skewing items...............................................................................................................79
Locking and unlocking items.........................................................................................79
Anchoring items and groups in text..............................................................................79
Working with callouts...........................................................................................80
Understanding callouts..................................................................................................80
Creating a callout..........................................................................................................82
Configuring a callout anchor.........................................................................................83
Working with callout styles............................................................................................85
Callouts and runaround.................................................................................................85
Working with tables..............................................................................................86
Drawing a table.............................................................................................................86
Converting text to tables...............................................................................................87
Importing Excel tables...................................................................................................88
Importing Excel charts...................................................................................................90
Adding text and pictures to tables................................................................................90
Editing table text ..........................................................................................................90
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