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Creating Drawing Objects

Impress provides ready-made shapes for drawing objects that can
be used in a document. We can format the shape and even write text
in it.
There are seven categories of Shapes—

v Line
v Basic Shapes

v Block Arrows
v Symbol Shapes

v Stars and Banners
v Callouts

v Flowcharts
To insert a shape in a document:

Step 1: Click on Insert menu.
Step 2: Click on Shape and choose a category.
Step 3: Choose a shape from the sub menu and click on it.

Step 4: Drag or draw in the document to draw the shape.

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You can also insert different shapes using the Drawing toolbar in Toolbar option under View menu.

Set or Change Properties for Drawing Objects

You can now change the properties like, fi ll color, line type and weight of the drawing object using either the
Drawing Object Properties toolbar (View  Toolbars  Drawing Object Properties) or the dialog boxes which
appears by right-clicking on the drawing object. You can also set properties of the drawing objects before you
draw it.
You can also specify the position and size, rotation, line, area, alignment and wrap properties of the drawing
object:

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