March 15, 2002
Two tricks about drawing tools
Drawing tools tricks
When you want to draw a circle or a rectangle, you click on the
relevant icon on the Drawing toolbar, move the mouse cursor on the slide,
and start drawing your object by dragging the mouse around.
Normally, if you have to draw a second circle, you have to go back to
the Drawing toolbar, click again into the "oval" tool, go back
into your slide and draw the second circle.
For the third one, you need to re-do this procedure once again.
There is a faster way of getting around this. If you have to draw more
than one object with the same shape (e.g. three rectangles or four
circles) this is what you can do: when you move into the Drawing toolbar
to activate the button (e.g. the "rectangle" tool), double-click
on it. Now you will be able to draw as many rectangles as you want into
your slide without having to click on the specific drawing tool each time.
When you don't want to draw any further, turn off the
"rectangle" button by clicking on it once.
On this note about drawing shapes, I'd like to ask if you have noticed how
many menus and sub-menus we have when searching for AutoShapes such as
basic shapes, flowcharts, stars and so on?
Any time you need one of those shapes, you need to press the AutoShapes
button again, then select the type you want and click on the shape you
want to insert.
This is often a time-consuming set of actions.
You can drag the single menus you use the most directly inside the
slide. By doing so, they will become floating toolbars.
To do this, move your mouse on top of the thin gray border that appears
on top of those little menus. The gray line will become blue. Now, click
on it and drag it around your slide. It will become a floating toolbar you
can easily position anywhere you like.
This feature can be applied to many menus and sub-menus, such as all
those that are under "Draw", such as "Order",
"Rotate or flip", "Align or distribute" and so on.
And this is not only in PowerPoint!
You can read this article in the original issue of MasterView.
posted by
Robin Good
on Friday, March 15 2002
Saturday, December 1 2007
URL of this article:
http://masterview.ikonosnewmedia.com/2002/03/15/two_tricks_about_drawing_tools.htm
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