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117. About Manipulating Objects

112 Place Shapes on the Drawing Area

114 About Perfecting Shapes

119 Align Objects

Producing accurate drawings often requires more than just an artistic ability; you must be able to keep control of the objects on your screen. Much of the artwork you create will require that you reuse objects you've already drawn, especially in commercial artwork for logos and advertisements.

Copying and pasting of the shapes, text, and all objects you place on your drawing area works differently from copying and pasting in other OpenOffice.org programs. Draw's graphical nature requires special handling when you want to copy and paste objects.

For example, when you want to move an object, you don't really need to cut and paste it. Just click to select the object and drag it to another location. If you want to move multiple objects, select them all before dragging them to another location. If your drawing has multiple objects, you can click to select one of them. Draw moves the selection to each succeeding object (in the order you drew them) each time you press

Tab .

TIP

To select multiple shapes, hold the

Shift key and click each object you want to select. Select all your drawing's objects by pressing

Ctrl+A .

To make a copy of an object, you can do so without using the

Edit menu to copy and paste, as you must do in most other Windows programs. Be warned, though, that it takes a little practice to make copies of Draw objects. To copy an object from one drawing location to another, follow these steps:

Use the

Ctrl

key to make copies of objects in other areas of your drawing.