Operation Manual

Drawing Lines and Shapes | 113
To draw a constrained shape (such as a circle):
• Hold down the Shift key as you drag.
All QuickShapes can be positioned, resized, rotated, and filled. What's more,
you can adjust their designs using the Pointer tool. Eac
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the appearance of a QuickShape:
1. Select it with the Pointer tool. One or more sliding handles appear next to
the shape. Different QuickShapes have diffe
2. To find out what each handle does for a particular shape, mov
tool over the ha
3. To change the appearance of a QuickShape, drag its handles.
sed shapes
As soon as you draw or select a line, you'll see the line's nod
show the end points of each segment in the line. Freehand cu
have many nodes; straight or curved line segments have only t
make a shape by extending a line back to its starting point.
turn a selected line into a shape:
To
• Select the line with the Pointer tool and click the Close Curve
button on the Cu
rve context toolbar.
ou can go the other way, too—break open a shape in order to add one or
ore line segments.
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