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DRAWING OBJECTS
If you need to create a flowchart or a callout box in your document, LibreOffice Writer offers drawing tools for
this purpose. The drawing tools in Writer are easy to use and help you create high-quality designs, diagrams,
and drawings. Once you’ve made your drawings, you can insert them directly into your document. These
diagrams can also be copied or imported into other software.
All these tools are present on the Drawing toolbar. We can access the Drawing toolbar by selecting the
View Toolbars Drawing option from the Menu bar. The Drawing toolbar provides the following tools:
Toggle
Right-Triangle Stars and Flowchart Point Edit
Curves and Square Symbol Banners (list) Insert Mode
Insert Line Polygons Rectangle Circle Shapes (list) (list) Text Box
Select Line and Curve Rectangle, Ellipse Isosceles Basic Block Callout Callouts Insert
Arrows Polygon Rounded Triangle Shapes Arrows Shapes Fontwork Toggle
(list) (list) (list) (list) Text Extrusion
Using Drawing Tools
The Drawing Toolbar in LibreOffice Writer provides a variety of tools to create different shapes, lines, and
other graphical elements.
Perform the following steps to use the shapes:
Step 1: Click on the desired tool from the Drawing toolbar. In this case, we have clicked the Circle tool.
Step 2: Drag over the area where you want to draw the circle.
Step 3: Release the mouse button to stop drawing.
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The selected drawing remains active and another copy is created on clicking anywhere in the Writer document.
To escape it either use the Esc key or click on the Select icon on the Drawing toolbar.
Changing Properties of Drawing Objects
You can modify the properties of the object you are working on. LibreOffice Writer offers the Drawing Object
Properties toolbar for customising objects. With this toolbar, you can move, resize, rotate, and edit the object
in various ways.
Follow the given steps to change the properties of a drawing object:
Step 1: Click on the Rectangle tool from the Drawing toolbar. The cursor changes to a plus sign with a
small rectangle.
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