smartssraka.blogg.se

The reason that you might need to do this is because, when you move an object by dragging it, the objects do not flow smoothly but instead snap to a grid. The align objects option allows you to precisely align two or more objects together. Hey presto! A perfectly symmetrical object. Draw the left hand side, join the individual parts together, copy and paste the image, flip horizontally, then align and join.

It is often very useful to use this feature if you are drawing a symmetrical diagram. This can be done by selecting one of the objects and sending it forwards or backwards. Sometimes however you want to reverse the order of two objects. Word orders images on top of on another in the order that you draw them. If you click on d raw, you will be presented with a number of options for manipulating images. Ordering, aligning, and flipping objects This means that any fill effects will not rotate. Note that although you can rotate objects you cannot rotate bitmap images. The little green dot with the blue circling arrow on it allows you to rotate an object. PROTIP: If you have a shape with several holes in them, consider grouping them all together - this will allow you to change opacity, line weight, fill color in a single action rather than doing it for each item. So for example if you want a red semicircle, you draw a red circle and overlay it with a white rectangle. It is possible however to give the appearance of a cut out by overlaying the shape with another shape that is coloured with the background colour. One of the difficultiesraw in Word is that you can't cut out parts of a shape. Once you have selected the shapes that you want to join together To prevent this from happening hold down the shift key as you click on each of the shapes in turn. Clicking on a shape will select it, but if you then click on another shape you will deselect the first one. The collection has been grouped into a single objectīefore you can join shapes together you need to select them all at once.

For these you need to be able to join simple shapes together.Ī collection of objects, each individually selected Simple squares and circles are very well but most diagrams that need to be drawn involve more complicated shapes than the ones that are available to you on the A utoshape palette. You can also colour in the outlines of your shapes, try the little paintbrush next to the fill paint pot. Note that you have to select an object by clicking on it in order to fill it with colour. Click on the little paint pot and try a few things out to see the effect. You can also fill an object with a texture of one of the pictures you have on your hardisk. Shapes can be filled with color there are a variety of possibilities from simple color to gradient fill. the depth of the bezier curve on the rounded box shape or the steepness of the sloping sides on the trapezium shape. Some shapes have a yellow box at one corner these let you vary one of the parameters of the shape. Notice the white little boxes at the "corners" of the shape, these are called handles and allow you to resize the shape bigger or smaller. Click the A utoshapes button and you will be presented with a number of possible shapes. The bases of vector graphics are simple lines and shapes. You should then see a toolbar at the bottom of the window that looks like this. If it's not go to View -> toolbars and tick the Drawing checkbox. The first thing to do is start up Word and make sure the drawing toolbar is visible.