Microsoft Office 2010 On Demand

4. Adding Shapes to Office Documents

What You’ll Do

Draw and Resize Shapes

Add Text to a Shape

Create and Edit Freeforms

Add a Quick Style to a Shape and Shape Text

Apply Fill Colors and Shape Effects

Apply Picture, Texture and Gradient Fills

Distribute Objects and Align to Grids and Guides

Change Stacking Order

Rotate and Flip Objects

Group and Ungroup Objects

Select Objects Using the Selection Pane

Introduction

When you want to add objects to a document, you can use Microsoft Office as a drawing package. Office provides a wide range of predesigned shapes, line options or freeform tools that allow you to draw, size, and format your own shapes and forms.

You can add several types of drawing objects to your Office documents—shapes, text boxes, ...