Creating shapes with the Shapes tool

You can use the Shapes tool to create a variety of shapes, including perfect circles, perfect squares, perfect triangles, other geometric shapes, hearts, check marks and Xs.

You can add a shape to your page, and then edit its properties. Alternatively, you can customize a shape’s outline color, fill color and line thickness, and then add it to your page.

To create a shape

1. Press Shapes .

   The Shapes tool buttons appear.

   

2. Select a shape on the toolbar.

   OR

   Press and then select a shape.

3. Optionally, customize the shape using the property selectors.

   Note 

   You can also customize the shape using the Properties tab (see Changing objects’ properties).

4. Create a shape by pressing where you want to place the shape and dragging until the shape is the size you want.

   Tip 

   You can create perfect circles, squares, triangles and other shapes by holding down SHIFT as you draw the shape.

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