
• Rectangle: draws a rectangle when you drag the mouse from the
top left to the bottom right corner. Press the Shift button to draw
a square.
• Ellipse: draws an ellipse. Press the Shift button to draw a circle.
• Text: creates a text box with text aligned horizontally.
• Vertical text: creates a text box with text aligned vertically. This
tool is available only when Asian language support has been
enabled in Tools > Options > Language Settings >
Languages.
• Curve: draws a curve. Click the black triangle for
more options. Note that the title of the submenu
when undocked is Lines.
• Connectors: draws a connector line between two
figures. Click the black triangle for additional
connectors. Their use is described in “Working with
connectors“ on page 119.
• Basic Shapes, Symbol Shapes, Block Arrows, Flowcharts,
Callouts, Stars: click the black triangle to open a toolbar
showing the available shapes in that category. The default shapes
are shown in Figure 68. Select the desired shape, then draw it by
dragging the mouse to define an enclosing rectangle. Keep the
Shift key pressed to obtain a shape where the height and width
are equal.
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