Draw Precision Shapes and Lines

Quick reference

• 00:04 In previous lessons,
• 00:05 we talked about how to draw on your OneNote using the Draw menu.
• 00:10 Of course, you can hand draw with the pens or the highlighters and of course,
• 00:14 you can erase what you've drawn.
• 00:17 But it's kind of hard to be perfectly accurate with those.
• 00:21 So let me show you how there's some built-in shapes and
• 00:24 some lines that'll make it much neater.
• 00:26 So I'm going to pick on the Draw menu,
• 00:29 and then notice how we have the shapes over here.
• 00:32 So let's try a couple of those.
• 00:34 This is just going to be a straight line.
• 00:37 I'll pick on this icon for the line.
• 00:40 And then you move your mouse where you want that line to appear.
• 00:43 And then you're just going to drag your mouse, and then you have a nice line.
• 00:48 Now of course,
• 00:49 it's going to be in the color from which that you chose your pen over here.
• 00:53 So in this case, I can just move that line with the sizing handles.
• 01:00 I can make it bigger or smaller using the sizing handles and so on.
• 01:04 So that's a much better line than what I could have done by drawing it by hand.
• 01:09 Now this one would be a line with an arrow at the end.
• 01:13 So I'll pick on this one, and then again just draw a line.
• 01:16 And now, notice how that one has an arrow at the end,
• 01:20 doesn't have two arrows, right, on either end as you can see, all right?
• 01:25 Then this one is going to be where you can actually make an angle.
• 01:30 So I'm just going to draw it over here and then just go down, okay?
• 01:35 So I was able to make a pretty good corner there.
• 01:38 This one is the same kind of thing, except it would have a single arrow.
• 01:44 Now, this one is going to be an angle with a double arrow.
• 01:49 So I'll click on that one, and then very quickly make that as you can see.
• 01:54 Then we have the different shapes.
• 01:56 So I have a rectangle, and then I'll just draw a rectangle on my OneNote.
• 02:02 And then we have the oval, no problem with that.
• 02:07 Now, let's say I want a perfect circle.
• 02:10 I'm going to click in the oval.
• 02:12 Now before I drag it, I hold down my Shift key, and
• 02:15 then it actually makes it into a perfect circle.
• 02:19 Whereas this one, it was not, but when you hold down your Shift key with the shapes,
• 02:23 then it'll make it like here.
• 02:24 Let's try a perfect square.
• 02:26 I'll click on the rectangle, and then come over here and just draw the rectangle.
• 02:31 I was able to hold down my Shift key and
• 02:33 you can see it comes up as a perfect square.
• 02:36 So then you have this one, a parallelogram, same kind of thing.
• 02:40 We have the triangle.
• 02:42 So I'll pick in the triangle, and I can draw a triangle by hand, right?
• 02:49 But if I want that to be a perfect triangle,
• 02:51 then I'll pick on the triangle again.
• 02:54 I'm going to hold down my Shift key, then when I drag it,
• 02:57 it really becomes a perfect triangle, all right?
• 03:00 So then we have a diamond, same kind of thing there.
• 03:03 Now in this case, this is called two dimensions.
• 03:07 So let's see what that one looks like.
• 03:08 Let me go ahead and make a new page.
• 03:10 So I'm going to add a page, and then we'll call this one More Shapes.
• 03:20 So I'll pick on this one.
• 03:24 And then let's draw that and see what that looks like.
• 03:27 So then you see how that's going to be another one with the angle.
• 03:32 Let's try this one.
• 03:35 And then this one is more of a, they're actually calling these graphs.
• 03:41 So you can see how you'll be able to make a graph from there.
• 03:44 And then this one is more of a three-dimensional graph as we can see,
• 03:48 all right?
• 03:49 So now with any of the shapes, you can pick on the arrow over here to
• 03:54 select them and then want to click on that shape.
• 03:58 Then from here, I can always resize it or move it, of course.
• 04:02 And then if I right click on that shape, I can rotate it.
• 04:05 So you have those same kind of features that we had with a picture as far as that
• 04:09 rotation.
• 04:10 Make sure you know that about any of the shapes.
• 04:14 And that's how we can add our shapes and
• 04:19 the lines into our OneNote.

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