Documentation/AOO4 User Guides/Getting Started/Getting Started with Draw/Drawing Shapes

The Basic Drawing Shapes

Draw provides a wide range of shapes, located in palettes accessed from the Properties deck of the Sidebar or the Drawing Toolbar. This section describes only a few of the basic shapes. These shapes include; rectangles and squares, circles, ellipses, and arcs, 3D objects, curves, lines and arrows, text, and connectors. All shapes in Draw are called objects. See the Draw Guide for a complete description of the shapes available.

When you draw a basic shape or select one for editing, the Info field on the left side in the status bar changes to reflect the present action: Create Line , Text frame xxyy selected, and so on.

Figure 144 shows part of the Drawing toolbar with the icons needed in the following sections. The Text icon is also included. These same icons are displayed in the Sidebar.

Figure 141: Part of the Drawing toolbar