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Manipulating objects

Manipulating objects - Publisher Tutorial

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Manipulating objects

Once you've drawn your own shapes, or inserted existing shapes into a publication, you may need to manipulate them. Maybe you want to rotate the object, or flip it horizontally, or vertically, resize it, move it around. So we're going to do all of that, continuing to use our FlyerAd publication, if you jumped to this lesson. We're on the second page. There is a shape that we borrowed from Microsoft Word. When we bring a shape over from another application, it's treated as a picture in Microsoft Publisher. Just behind that is a simple rectangle that we created by drawing our own shape. When we select a shape, like our rectangle, you can see what happens. Drawing tools appears with the Format tab, and when we click the Format tab, we're able to make a number of different changes. One of the changes that we can make, without using the Ribbon at all, is to resize and move this. The handles that you see around the outside, when you hover over them, will turn your arrow or mouse pointer…

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