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• Rotate: select this tool to rotate an object. As rotation is

considered a formatting attribute, this is discussed in chapter 6 of

this book.

• Align object: see “Aligning shapes“ on page 115.

• Arrange object: see “Arranging shapes“ on page 113.

• 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 111 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 or image” on page 118.

• Visible buttons: use the black triangle to open a menu that

allows to add or subtract buttons to the toolbar. The step by step

procedure is given in Chapter 4 of the

Getting Started

guide.

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. See Figure 72.

When drawing a polygon, 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 will color the inside area.

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

along with the blue 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) are 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 72: Creating a shape

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