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This lesson will show you how to resize the rectangles, ovals, triangles, and other shapes on your page in OneNote.
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Resize OneNote Shapes and Lines
This lesson will show you how to resize the rectangles, ovals, triangles, and other shapes on your page in OneNote.
When to use
When you first place your shapes on the page, they will be a certain size, and sometimes you want to change the size of that shape.
Instructions
- Go into the OneNote program
- Go into the Quick Notes notebook
- Click on the new page icon on the right
- Click anywhere on the page
- Click on the Draw Menu
- Click on one of your shapes on the Draw Menu
- Move your mouse anywhere on the page
- Drag your mouse to make that shape
- Click on the Type tool on the left side of the Draw Menu
- Click on the border of the shape
- Notice the sizing handles around the shape
- Move your mouse directly onto one of the sizing handles
- Drag your mouse to resize the shape
Hints & tips
- If you move your mouse onto one of the corner sizing handles, it will keep the shape in proportion to its original size
- 00:04 In this lesson, let's see how we can resize the shapes and the lines.
- 00:09 So I'm going to go to the page that I made that was called images.
- 00:12 And this is where we started to make the circles and
- 00:16 the triangles and things like that.
- 00:18 Of course, we did that under the draw menu and then we see the shapes.
- 00:21 So I'm going to go ahead.
- 00:23 First of all, I'm going to make sure that my mouse is in the Select mode.
- 00:27 So I'll come over here on the Draw menu and I'll pick on where it says Type and
- 00:32 then it takes your mouse back to normal.
- 00:35 I'm going to click on that triangle, and then you can see how it's selected.
- 00:39 Then of course, we can use the sizing handles to size that.
- 00:45 Notice of course if I move the mouse
- 00:47 I get the four arrows then of course I can move that shape around.
- 00:52 All right, no problem with that.
- 00:54 Now, just click on one of those shapes.
- 00:57 Once your mouse is in select mode over here.
- 00:59 And then of course, you can resize it using the sizing handles.
- 01:03 Now if you use the ones in the corner,
- 01:05 it'll keep it in proportion to its original size.
- 01:09 However, if I use this one, then see how it stretches it vertically or
- 01:14 this one was stretched horizontally.
- 01:17 But if I use the ones in the corner,
- 01:19 it'll keep it in proportion to its original size.
- 01:21 So that's important.
- 01:23 Now another thing that you can do is if I right-click on that shape,
- 01:28 then I can also rotate it, as we talked about in the previous lesson.
- 01:33 Even up on the draw toolbar, here's another way we can rotate that as well.
- 01:39 Now, let's say I want to change the color of one of my shapes,
- 01:43 then I'm going to click on the circle.
- 01:46 And then, notice when I click on it, I get the pen properties.
- 01:49 So I'll pick on pen properties, and
- 01:52 then I can change the thickness of the pen or the color.
- 01:56 Clearly, you can see it's red right now.
- 01:58 So I'll pick on green, and I'll pick on okay, and now the circle is green.
- 02:03 So when you click on the shape, you'll get this extra window here.
- 02:07 And then I picked on pen properties and that so you can change the color of the shape.
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