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E. R. Evans, Jr. – 1/16/02 Page 1 of 7 D:\Evans\METBD 050\METBD 050 - Drawing Tool Notes.doc METBD 050 Drawing Tool Notes: Drawing toolbar: (View – Toolbars – Drawing) Create Drawing Objects: 1. Pick the type of object to be created from the toolbar or from the AutoShapes menu. 2. Click and drag in the document to create the object. a. Press the Shift key while dragging and lines will be horizontal, vertical, or aligned with snap axes oriented at angle intervals of 15°. b. Pressing the Shift key while dragging AutoShapes has the following effects: · Oval ® becomes a circle. · Rectangle ® becomes a square. · Polygons ® become “regular” where all sides have the same length. Draw Menu: Group Ungroup Regroup Order Grid Nudge Align or Distribute Rotate or Flip Text Wrapping Edit Points Change AutoShape Set AutoShape Defaults Dash Style Line Style Line Flip Vertical Flip Horizontal Rotate Right Rotate Left Select Objects Free Rotate Font Color Line Color Fill Color Insert WordArtText Box Oval Rectangle Arrow Arrow Style AutoShapes Menu: Lines Basic Shapes Block Arrows Flowchart Stars and Banners Callouts Some of these command buttons are not on the Standard Drawing Toolbar and can be added using the View – Toolbar – Customize selection. Locate the command desired in the list and drag the icon to the appropriate toolbar.E. R. Evans, Jr. – 1/16/02 Page 2 of 7 D:\Evans\METBD 050\METBD 050 - Drawing Tool Notes.doc c. Pressing the Ctrl key while dragging an objects causes the initial selection point to be the center of the object. d. Pressing the Shift and Ctrl keys at the same time while dragging causes objects to be centered and regular. e. Many AutoShapes have yellow anchors which can be dragged to change the AutoShape. f. Arcs can be created in any of the 4 Cartesian quadrants using the Arc AutoShape. Press the Shift key to make it round having a 90-degree included angle. Use the yellow anchors for included angles more or less than 90-degrees. g. The Freeform AutoShape allows the user to create non-standard, closed geometric shapes. Click at each required corner and close the object by picking on the first point again. These objects have a fill color. Right-clicking on the object opens a menu. One of the items in this menu, “Edit Points” allows the user to move the points used to create the Freeform. h. The Curve AutoShape can be used to create curved objects. Double-click in the last position to close the curve. The parabola shown below was created using the Curve AutoShape. The coordinates were defined before drawing the curve. Like the Freeform AutoShape, the points of a Curve can be edited. i. Text Box objects are used to include text in Word drawings. These objects do not scale well when grouped with other objects. Isosceles Triangle AutoShape Yellow anchor for modifying the AutoShapeModified Modified Created Pressing the Shift key Created w/ Shift Key and Dragging Yellow AnchorE. R. Evans, Jr. – 1/16/02 Page 3 of 7 D:\Evans\METBD 050\METBD 050 - Drawing Tool Notes.doc Formatting Drawing Objects: 1. Standard formats can be applied to any drawing object by selecting the object then picking the appropriate tool from the drawing toolbar. The formatable parts of a drawing object include: a. Line Style – specify the thickness of the line or AutoShape boundary line in points. (You will recall that 72 points = 1 inch.) This tool can also change the line style as shown below. b. Dash Style – specify the line style as solid, round dot, square dot, dash, dash dot, long dash, long dash dot, or long dash dot dot. c. Arrow Style – create arrows at either or both ends of a line object. The figure below shows the basic types. Pick More Arrows… to specify other arrowhead styles. Arrows can be applied to line type objects (lines, arcs, and curves). d. Fill Color – Sets the Color or Fill Effects (pattern) of the interior of an AutoShape. Can be set to “No Fill” to see through the AutoShape. e. Line Color – Sets the color of the object’s line. Can be set to “No Line” to hide the line on AutoShapes. White Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet White Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet Some of the Different Fill Patterns Available for Filling AutoShapesE. R. Evans, Jr. – 1/16/02 Page 4 of 7 D:\Evans\METBD 050\METBD 050 - Drawing Tool Notes.doc 2. Other formats are available by right-clicking on the object and selecting “Format AutoShape” from the menu. This option opens the dialog box shown below. When Formatting AutoShapes When Formatting Lines, Arcs, & Curves The Size tab permits the sizing and rotation of a drawing object. Objects can be scaled (increase or decrease the size) using this tab as well. The Layout tab is used to specify how text wraps around the drawing object. Additionally, it can be used to specify horizontal and vertical alignment of the drawing object on the page. The Text Box tab is used to set the internal text margins of the Text Box. This is the distance text appears from the edges of the Text Box. Nicely Proportioned ArrowheadsE. R. Evans, Jr. – 1/16/02 Page 5 of 7 D:\Evans\METBD 050\METBD 050 - Drawing Tool Notes.doc Screen Captures: 1. Often times, we want to capture something from our screen for inclusion in a document. To capture the screen, press the “Print Scrn” button to capture the screen image in the clipboard. Select a place to put the picture in your document and pick the Paste button to insert the picture into the document. The picture can be cropped using the crop tool which is found on the Picture toolbar. To crop, select the crop tool, then click on a picture anchor and drag. 2. To capture the active window, press the Alt button while pressing the Print Scrn button. Place and crop in the same manner as in number 1. Snap and Grid: 1. Snap and grid are tools used to aid in creating proportional and scale drawings in Word. Access the Drawing Grid dialog box through the Draw menu on the Drawing Toolbar. An invisible grid, similar to the grid on graph paper, can be used in a Word document. The spacing of the grid can be specified in the Drawing Grid dialog


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