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Lesson 8: Working with Illustrations

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Lesson 8 Objectives

•insert, modify and enhance text boxes

•insert and modify WordArt objects•create, arrange and enhance shapes

•create a drop cap

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Working with Shape Objects •Create own drawings using Shapes feature

•On Insert tab, in Illustrations group, click Shapes

•Organized by type and purpose

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Working with Shape Objects •When creating shapes related to each other, use drawing canvas to keep shapes together– To create drawing canvas, on Insert tab, in Illustrations

group, click Shape and then click New Drawing Canvas– To set up drawing canvas every time, click File tab, click

Options, click Advanced category and under Editing options, click Automatically create drawing canvas when inserting AutoShapes

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Working with Shape Objects• When object drawn or selected, Drawing Tools ribbon displays

• Click at top left corner of object to start and then drag to size• Once object drawn, selected tool deselects• Click object to select it• To select multiple objects:

– Click first object, press Shift, click next object, or– Use Home tab, in Editing group, click Select and click Select Objects to

draw marquee around several objects

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Working with Shape Objects• To size object, select it, drag handle until object at desired size• To move object, point anywhere on it and drag to new location• To delete object, select it and press Delete• For precise placement:

– On View tab, in Show/Hide group, click Gridlines, or – Under Drawing Tools ribbon, click Format tab, in Arrange group, click

Align and click View Guidelines

• To draw straight line or perfectly proportioned object, press Shift as you draw object

• To draw object equal distance in height or width from center point, press Ctrl as you draw object

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Working with Shape Objects•To share object side or point, draw first object, increase zoom, then draw second object and move object to shared side

•To insert text into object:– Select object and begin typing, or– click Draw Text Box, or– right-click object and click Add Text

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Customizing Shapes•Use blue handles to resize shape •Use green handle to rotate shape•Use yellow diamond to change depth•Can also click option in Format tab of Drawing Tools ribbon– Commands in Arrange or Size group

remain same

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Customizing Shapes

•Use Arrange group to lay out position of shapes

•Use Size group to change height or width of shape– Can also use Size tab in Format Shape dialog box to set

height and width

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Learn the Skill

•Open a Blank Document and save it as New Tour Process Flow

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Using WordArt

• Variety of patterns and styles, fonts and sizes

• Type up to 200 characters• Edit using Drawing Tools ribbon• To add WordArt, on Insert tab, in

Text group, click WordArt– Once created, manipulate using

same options as drawn object

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Learn the Skill

•Open the Heli Ski Tours Review file. Save the file as Heli Ski Tours.

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Using Text Boxes• Insert pre-formatted text box to

enter text for specific area of document

• Offset information or draw attention to particular message

• Gallery of several styles of text boxes or create own.

• To use text box, on Insert tab, in Text group, click Text Box

• Use Drawing Tools ribbon to format or enhance text box

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Using Text Boxes

•Can save text box format and style in Text Box Gallery

•On Insert tab, in Text group, click Text Box, click Save Selection to Text Box Gallery– Enter information to identify text box

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Learn the Skill

•Open the Heli Ski Tours file.

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