Drawing and Resizing Shapes

Office supplies ready-made shapes, ranging from hearts to lightning bolts to stars. The ready-made shapes are available directly on the Shapes gallery on the Insert and Format tabs. Once you have placed a shape on a document, you can resize it using the sizing handles. Many shapes have an adjustment handle, a small yellow or pink diamond located near a resize handle that you can drag to alter the shape. For precision when resizing, use the Format AutoShape dialog box to specify the new size of the shape.

Draw a Shape

image Click the Object Palette tab on the Toolbox.

Click the Shapes tab.

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