Shapes

Quick reference

• 00:01 All right, we're starting with a blank publication, this time.
• 00:07 We're going to work with shapes.
• 00:09 Shapes are on the insert ribbon, and they're over here,
• 00:12 in the illustrations group.
• 00:13 We have pictures, online pictures, shapes and
• 00:15 picture placeholders, but let's just stay with shapes.
• 00:18 When you click this, you'll see all the variety of shapes in here.
• 00:22 Everything you could possibly imagine is in here.
• 00:25 Generally, sometimes, when I teach this in class, people try to click and
• 00:28 drag the shape.
• 00:29 They'll try to click and drag, and it won't come out of there.
• 00:32 Actually, how you do this is you simply click it once, and nothing happens.
• 00:36 But notice my mouse on my screen turned to a black crossbar, and
• 00:39 I'm just going to click to drop a perfect square.
• 00:42 Let's go do that, again.
• 00:43 Click on the Insert.
• 00:44 Click on Shapes.
• 00:45 This time, grab the circle.
• 00:46 Click it once.
• 00:47 Come out here.
• 00:48 Just click to drop a perfect circle.
• 00:50 But what if I want an oval?
• 00:52 Click on Insert.
• 00:52 Click on Shapes.
• 00:53 Click that circle, again.
• 00:55 But, this time, click and drag, and you'll see an oval.
• 00:58 Okay, so that's how you do this.
• 00:59 As soon as you let go, you see the Drawing Tools, Format.
• 01:03 So I can come over here.
• 01:04 I can edit my shape, change a shape.
• 01:07 I can put text inside the shape.
• 01:09 Just type the word, Hello.
• 01:10 I know you can't see that.
• 01:11 It's really tiny, so let me make that a little larger.
• 01:14 And then, we can change the outline, change the color, the inside color fill.
• 01:21 You can get really crazy, with all of this stuff, shape effects.
• 01:24 We can add shadows and all this to it.
• 01:26 But, let's see, that didn't really work, did it?
• 01:29 Let's see.
• 01:30 Let's try reflection.
• 01:31 There we go. We've got a reflection going on.
• 01:33 I want to take this a little further, though, and
• 01:35 we're going to look at the arranging, as well.
• 01:38 You can click and drag, and
• 01:39 layer these things, and the computer knows which one came in first, second and third.
• 01:43 So let me scroll in, so you can see this.
• 01:45 So I put the square in first, and then I did this circle.
• 01:51 I think I did that one third.
• 01:52 So first, second, and then this orange one was third.
• 01:55 But what if we want to send this orange one to the back?
• 01:58 Well, notice, on the Drawing Tools, Format, we have a Bring Forward,
• 02:01 Send Backward.
• 02:01 They both have drop-down arrows.
• 02:03 So Bring Forward, Bring to Front, Send Backward, Send to Back.
• 02:06 Then, of course, we have the alignment, so we can align these relative.
• 02:10 If you've watched this course from the beginning, this all looks familiar to you.
• 02:14 It's because you saw it in the text boxes.
• 02:16 See, text boxes, shapes and pictures all have handles, all have the Bring Forward,
• 02:21 Bring Back, all have wrapped text functions.
• 02:23 So it's going to seem familiar.
• 02:25 We also have this little spinning circle at the top, so we can tip this sideways.
• 02:29 I like this one, the shapes, because the text didn't stay horizontal.
• 02:33 It actually tipped with the shape.
• 02:34 I really like that feature.
• 02:35 It's kind of nice.
• 02:38 But, all that to show you that I want to tell you that you don't always
• 02:41 have to go to your ribbons for these alignment buttons.
• 02:43 They're also on the right-click.
• 02:45 So I'm going to right click on the edge of the shape,
• 02:47 not in the text area, on the edge of the shape, right mouse button.
• 02:51 And we have an option, right here.
• 02:53 I thought I'd have that option, to send this backward.
• 02:56 Way up there, see this little minibar?
• 02:57 It winds up far away from my mouse, but this minibar has a Bring Forward,
• 03:02 Send Backward button in it.
• 03:03 So I can just hit that, and hit it again, and send that backward.
• 03:07 So now I'm going to click on this little box, right click.
• 03:10 This time, I want to send this one backward.
• 03:12 Send it backward.
• 03:13 You right click on this one, cute little minibar with the base little functions.
• 03:17 You see, it's within a quarter inch of my mouse.
• 03:19 Instead of me having to stop, go up to my Drawing Tools, Format, find Bring Forward
• 03:23 or Send Backward, just a right click, and it's right there by my mouse.
• 03:27 It's kind of great.
• 03:28 I just wanted to point that out to you.
• 03:29 All right, let's go ahead and move on to the next lesson,
• 03:34 and we'll work more with shapes.
• 03:36 But this time, we're going to put pictures inside the shapes.
• 03:38 Kind of a cool feature!

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