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Creating Drawing Objects and Changing their Properties
riter provides us a set of built-in shapes like ectangle llipse ines olygon etc. ou can use these shapes
in your documents according to your re uirement. ou can also rotate resi e and flip the drawing ob ects
and also change the colour of them.
erform the following steps to use the utoShapes:
Step 1: lick on the Rectangle tool from the Drawing toolbar. The cursor changes to a plus sign with a
small rectangle.
Step 2: lick and drag where you want to draw the rectangle in the document. he rectangle is drawn and
the Properties panel appears in the right-hand side containing different properties under three
categories named Area, Line, Position and Size.
Area: he properties under this category works on fill area of the drawing ob ect. his category contains
the following properties:
Fill: This property allows you to apply background colour, gradient, etc. to your drawing objects.
Transparency: This property allows you to set the transparency level of the drawing objects. It takes value
in percentage from to . here means the drawing ob ect will fully opa ue on the other
hand means the drawing ob ect will fully transparent.
Line: The properties under this category works with the border
of the drawing objects. This category contains the following
properties:
Width: It sets the width of the line or border of the drawing
objects.
Color: It sets the colour of the line or border of the drawing
objects.
Style: It sets the style of the line or border of the drawing
objects.
Transparency: It sets the transparency level of the line or
border of the drawing objects. It takes value in percentage
from to . here means the drawing ob ect will
fully opa ue on the other hand means the drawing
object will fully transparent.
Arrow: It sets the style of the beginning arrowhead.
Corner Style: It sets the style for the edges of the drawing
objects.
Cap Style: It sets the style of the line cap.
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