Concepts
What is a tool palette?
What do each of the draw tools do?
A Tool palette is group of tools for creating and manipulating objects (lines,
boxes, etc) within the document. The tool palette (or tool panel) is the row of icons at
the bottom of the document window. The icon image is suggestive of the function.
- Pointer
- Select, move, and resize objects
- Rotation Tool
- Rotate objects
- AutoShapes
- Insert an AutoShape
- Line Tool
- Draw lines
- Arrow Tool
- Draw arrows
- Rectangle
- Draw rectangles and squares (hold the Shift key down to draw a square)
- Ellipse
- Draw ovals and circles (hold the Shift key down to draw a circle)
- Text Box
- Add text to your drawing by creating a text box
- WordArt
- Create WordArt
- Fill
- Choose fill color, and fill an area with the color
- Line Color
- Choose line color
- Font Color
- Choose font color
- Line width
- Choose line width
- Line Style
- Choose line style–dashed, dotted, etc.
- Arrow Style
- Choose arrow style–size/shape of arrowhead, etc
- Shadow
- Choose shadowing style
- 3-D
- Choose 3-D style
The Picture toolbar
When a clip art/picture is selected, the above toolbar is displayed.
- Insert Picture
- Inserts another picture, overlapping the selected picture
- Image Control
- Change the look of image–black & white, watermark, etc.
- Brightness
- Control brightness of the image
- Contrast
- Control contrast of the image
- Crop tool
- Crop the image
- Line Style
- Change style of the line/border
- Text wrap
- Change/set wrapping style
- Format
- Format picture–size, position etc.
- Reset Picture
- Resets picture to the way it looked when inserted
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