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• Align object: see “Aligning shapes“ on page 116.

• Arrange object: see “Arranging shapes“ on page 119.

• Extrusion On/Off: switches 3D effects on or off for the selected

object. Clicking this button also opens the 3D settings toolbar.

See “Working with 3D shapes” on page 121 for details.

• Interaction: opens a dialog box where you can specify the

interaction between the user and the object. See “Setting up

interaction with a shape” on page 124.

• Visible buttons: use the black triangle on the far right of the

toolbar to open a menu from which you can add or subtract

buttons on the toolbar. See Chapter 1 (Introducing Impress) for

more information.

Creating lines and shapes

To create shapes and lines:

1) Select the desired line or shape

tool.

2) Click and drag to create the

object on the slide.

When drawing a freehand polygon (that

is, when you create a shape segment by

segment), keep the Shift key pressed to

restrict the angle between the

segments to multiples of 45 degrees. To finish drawing a polygon,

double-click on the last part of the segment. If a closed polygon was

selected, OOo draws the line connecting the last point to the start

point and fills the inside area with the default color.

When drawing certain shapes, one or more yellow dots are displayed

along with the green resizing handles. These dots perform a different

function according to the shape they are applied to. With the basic

shapes the yellow dot (or dots) is used for the following purposes:

• Rounded rectangle and Rounded square shapes: use the yellow

dot to change the size of the curve replacing the corners.

• Circle Pie: use the two yellow dots to change the size of the filled

sector.

• Isosceles triangle: move the yellow dot on one vertex to modify

the triangle type.

• Trapezoid, Parallelogram, or Octagon: move the yellow dot to

change the angle between the sides.

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Figure 70: Creating a shape

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