Operation Manual

182 Pictures, Lines, and Shapes
Drawing and editing shapes
QuickShapes are pre-designed objects of widely varying shapes that you can
instantly add to your page.
Once you've drawn a QuickShape, you can morph its original shape using
control handles, and adjust its properties—for example, by applying gradient or
bitmap fills (including your own bitmap pictures!) or transparency effects.
Another way to create a shape is to draw a line (or series of line segments) and
then connect its start and end nodes, creating a closed shape.
QuickShapes
The QuickShape flyout contains a wide
variety of commonly used shapes, including
boxes, ovals, arrows, polygons, and stars.
It’s also possible to use the always-at-hand QuickShape context toolbar situated
above the workspace to swap QuickShapes, and adjust a QuickShape’s line
weight, color, style, and more. New shapes always take the default line and fill
(initially a black line with no fill).