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Changing Properties For Drawing Objects
                 Whenever an image or a graphical object is inserted in a document then its properties like colour, contrast, brightness
                 etc. can easily be modified using  the Drawing Object Properties toolbar. You can access  it by  clicking  on the
                 View   Toolbars   Drawing Object Properties option. It is a floating toolbar, and can be placed anywhere on the
                 screen, as shown in below figure:






                  1   2 3 4 5 6 7      8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15   16     17   18     19          20    21 22 23 24 25 26 27
                 1. Select Anchor for Object        10. Forward One                    19. Area Style/Filling
                 2. None                            11. Back One                       20. Fill Color
                 3. Parallel                        12. Send to Back                   21. Rotate
                 4. Optimal                         13. To Foreground                  22. Toggle Point Edit Mode
                 5. Before                          14. To Background                  23. Group

                 6. After                           15. Arrow                          24. Ungroup
                 7. Through                         16. Line Style                     25. Enter Group
                 8. Align Objects                   17. Line Thickness                 26. Exit Group
                 9. Bring to Front                  18. Line Color                     27. Insert Caption

                 The steps to use the tools from the above toolbar are:
                 Step 1:   Draw a line using a Drawing toolbar.

                 Step 2:  Select the line with the square on its edges.
                 Step 3:   Select the Line Style tool present on the Drawing Object Properties toolbar to change the style of the line. It
                         will display the list of different line styles like dotted, dash, thick, double, etc.

                 Step 4:  Specify the width of the line in the Line Thickness text box present on the Drawing Object Properties toolbar.
                 Step 5:  Choose the colour for the line in the Line Color option on the Drawing Object Properties toolbar.

                 The specified settings are applied to the object, as shown in the below figure:



























                 After the changes are done, click on any other part of the document to remove the square handles from the line
                 drawn. Changes done in properties of an object, before creating it, are available only for current session.


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