DRWING OBJECTS

                                             Using the Drawing Toolbar

PowerPoint Provides the Drawing toolbar to help you draw various graphic objects, such as Lines, Arrows,  Rectangles, Ellipses, Text Boxes and –d objects (refer Figure 3.1). You can also file various colors in these objects, rotate objects and apply shadow effects to the objects.

PowerPoint also allows you to draw various Auto Shapes. The Auto Shapes feature makes it easy for you to draw shapes in your PowerPoint slides and other applications. The Auto Shapes tool displays a pop-up menu when you click on it, This menu contains options like Lines, Basic Shapes, Block Arrows, Flowcharts and Cal louts.

Drawing a Line

Drawing lines in similar to drawing shapes, the difference being that lines are not enclosed objects. These have a beginning point and an end point.

The steps to draw a line are:

1.     Open the slide on which you want to draw a line

2. Select the Line button from the Drawing toolbar

The mouse pointer changes to a crosshair.

3.     Move the mouse pointer to the point where the line should start on the slide

4. Click and drag the mouse to the point where the line should end
5. Release the mouse button 

Arrows and other objects can also be drawn in a spoiler manner.

Selecting anObject

IF you want to make changes to an object, such as adding colors and changing size, you need to select the object, An object can be selected by clicking on it, When you click on the border, the reside handles surround the object in a rectangular shape as shown in Figure 3.23

GroupingObjects

Sometimes you need to move or copy and paste all the objects that  you have drawn simultaneously to a new location. In this canes, you will have to select individual objects and perform the necessary tasks.

You can also select multiple objects simultaneously by grouping them. Once the objects are grouped, all these objects are treated as one object, You can move and copy all the object simultaneously.  

The steps to select multiple objects are:

1.     Press and hold down the Shift key and then click on each object you want to select The resize handles are displayed around each object you select as shown in Figure 3.3

2.     Release the Shift key after selecting all the objects.

If you select an object by mistake and you want to remove it form the selection, continues holding down the Shift key while you click on the same object again. PowerPoint removes the object form the selection.

The steps to group all the objects are:

1.     Click on the right mouse button

The Shortcut menu is displayed.

2.     Select the Group option from the Grouping option of the Shortcut menu All the selected objects are grouped.