Search for Shapes

Quick reference

• 00:04 Let's figure out how to add some more shapes onto your diagram.
• 00:08 One quick thing that you can do is you can pick on the Home menu, and
• 00:12 then you click on this pull down for the shapes.
• 00:15 And you'll see a rectangle, an ellipse, a line, a free form is where you
• 00:20 can draw your own, an arc, and the pencil is another way to draw your own as well.
• 00:26 So if I pick in the word rectangle, then I'll come over here and
• 00:30 just draw a rectangle with my mouse, as you can see.
• 00:34 Now, let me give you a big tip right here.
• 00:36 Let me show you how to draw a perfect square.
• 00:39 So now, my mouse is still the rectangle icon.
• 00:44 So I'm going to hold down my Shift key.
• 00:47 If you hold down your shift key, and then drag your mouse,
• 00:50 notice how it becomes a perfect square.
• 00:53 If I click on this pull down, you'll see some other shapes there.
• 00:57 So I can pick an ellipse.
• 00:59 And again, if I drag my mouse, it becomes a nice ellipse there.
• 01:04 But if I wanted the perfect circle, I'm going to hold down my Shift key, and
• 01:08 then drag it, and it becomes a perfect circle, okay?
• 01:12 So that's how those can work.
• 01:13 And then the free form and the pencil are ones that you can draw yourself.
• 01:19 Also, once you're done with those, you want to go back to the pointer tool,
• 01:23 because otherwise your mouse is still that shape that you chose.
• 01:27 So pick in the pointer tool, and then you can go back to selecting things.
• 01:32 Once I have the pointer tool, I can click these shapes so I can get rid of them.
• 01:36 So I'm going to click on this one and press my Delete key.
• 01:39 I'll click on this one and press my Delete key, this one, and then this one.
• 01:45 All right, let's say I want to have a picture of a keyboard right where they
• 01:49 would enter their user ID, just to make it more visually appealing.
• 01:53 So I'm going to come over here where it says Search shapes and
• 01:57 I'll type in keyboard.
• 01:58 You can type in just about anything,
• 02:00 and you'll probably find the shape of what you're looking for.
• 02:04 So notice how I found some keyboards.
• 02:06 So I'll pick up the word keyboard and just drag it over here.
• 02:10 All right,
• 02:10 just to kind of show them that this will be somewhere they would type something in.
• 02:15 So you can search over here.
• 02:17 Now, I can click on this pull down and
• 02:19 see the different things that I've searched for in the past.
• 02:23 And then to clear that out and get everything back again I'm going to click
• 02:27 on this x, and now everything is back.
• 02:30 Now, watch my mouse and
• 02:32 I'll pick on More Shapes, and then you'll actually see other stencils.
• 02:36 So if you move your mouse to the different stencils, it goes down even further.
• 02:42 And then if I click on this one,
• 02:44 then I will start to see some other shapes and so on.
• 02:48 So you can go through the different stencils and see what's available.
• 02:51 You can search for them over here.
• 02:54 Now, when I just clicked on that, that's just added that stencil onto the diagram.
• 02:59 So notice how this other stencil is available.
• 03:02 Let me go back to the basic flowchart shapes as well, all right?
• 03:06 So very powerful here, you really find many, many shapes.
• 03:12 One thing that you can do is you can pick on the Home menu, and
• 03:15 then you'll find some really common shapes over here.
• 03:19 Then you can search for shapes over here.
• 03:21 You can search for just about anything, and
• 03:23 it'll probably find some kind of shape out there.
• 03:26 You can also pick on More Shapes,
• 03:28 and then you'll find many other stencils or categories of the stencils.
• 03:34 And then if I pick on that stencil,
• 03:36 it adds it to my available stencils over here, and that'll give you many shapes.
• 03:42 So you can see there's many great ways to find and
• 03:47 add shapes onto your diagram.

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