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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:
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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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