Drawing basic shapes

The drawing tools let you draw the basic shapes you'll use to build your drawing. All of these tools work in the same way. To draw a shape, you click and drag until the shape is the size you want.

pre00002.gif The Ellipse tool pre00043.gif lets you draw ellipses and circles.

pre00002.gif The Rectangle tool pre00042.gif lets you draw rectangles and squares.

pre00002.gif The Polygon tool pre00044.gif lets you draw polygons. You can change the properties (e.g., number of points) of a shape created with the Polygon tool after the shape is placed.

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To draw an ellipse

To draw a rectangle

To draw a polygon

To draw a star-shaped polygon

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Drawing and shaping objects

Selecting and deselecting objects

Changing the properties of a polygon or star

To apply line-ending shapes using the Outline Pen dialog box

Organizing objects