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<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Editing Graphic Objects </title>
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<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3145136"><bookmark_value>text; drawing pictures</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>inserting; drawings</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>pictures; drawing</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>objects; copying/moving</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>draw objects; adding and editing</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>circle drawings</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>square drawings</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>handles; scaling</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>scaling; objects</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>objects; resizing with mouse</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>changing; object sizes</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>copying; draw objects</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>draw objects; copying</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>editing;draw objects</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>adding;draw objects</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>scaling, see also zooming and resizing</bookmark_value>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145136" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="11"><variable id="insert_graphic_drawit"><link href="text/shared/guide/insert_graphic_drawit.xhp" name="Editing Graphic Objects">Editing Graphic Objects</link>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153345" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="9">Choose <emph>View - Toolbars - Drawing</emph> to open the <emph>Drawing</emph> toolbar, if it is not already open.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3166460" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="2">Drawing objects can be subsequently edited and modified. Drawing objects created in this way are vector graphics, which you can scale freely without any loss of quality.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148491" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="3">To create a rectangle, click the rectangle icon and move your cursor to the place in the document where you want one corner of the rectangle to be. Press the mouse button and hold it down while dragging to the opposite corner of the rectangle. When you release the mouse button, the rectangle is inserted in the document. It is selected, and you can edit its properties through the context menu.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3149164" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="13"><switchinline select="appl"><caseinline select="DRAW">To draw multiple objects of the same type, double-click the icon.
</caseinline><caseinline select="IMPRESS">To draw multiple objects of the same type, double-click the icon.
</caseinline><defaultinline>Draw multiple objects of the same type. Click the document without moving the mouse to stop drawing objects.</defaultinline></switchinline></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3148473" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">If you want to open up draw objects from the center instead of dragging from one corner to the other, hold down the <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC"><item type="keycode">Option</item>
</caseinline><defaultinline>
<item type="keycode">Alt</item></defaultinline></switchinline> key while dragging. <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="UNIX">With some window managers, you may need to hold down also the meta key.
</caseinline></switchinline> Holding down the <item type="keycode">Shift</item> key while dragging limits the created object. For example, instead of a rectangle with sides of different length, you obtain a square.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3153626" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="5">To scale the objects, first select them by clicking on them with the selection tool. You then see eight handles around the object. When you drag one of the four corner handles, the opposite corner remains fixed while the other three corners move. When you drag one of the side handles, the opposite side remains fixed.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3149669" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">To move draw objects, first select them. To select more than one object, press the <item type="keycode">Shift</item> key while clicking. Select text objects by clicking exactly on their edge. While holding down the mouse button, drag the objects to the new location. If you hold down <item type="keycode">Shift</item> while dragging, the objects can only be positioned in places compatible with the page margins and the other objects on the page.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3151054" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="7">To copy a draw object, keep holding down <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">the <item type="keycode">Command</item> key
</caseinline><defaultinline><item type="keycode">Ctrl</item></defaultinline></switchinline>, click the draw object and wait a second, then with the key still pressed, drag the draw object.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="note" id="par_id3156422" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="8">To revert to normal text mode after creating and editing draw objects, click in an area of the document containing no draw or other objects. If you see a drawing cursor, first exit this mode by clicking the <emph>Select</emph> icon.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145785" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10"><link href="text/shared/02/01140000.xhp" name="Information about the individual icons">Information about the individual icons</link></paragraph>
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