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Drawing basics – Apple AppleWorks 5 : Windows 95/NT 4.0 User Manual

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AppleWorks 5 User’s Manual

Drawing basics

You use the same tools and commands any time you work with the
drawing tools.

Creating a drawing

Note

You can create pictures by either drawing or by painting. For

information about painting and how it differs from drawing, see
chapter 6, “Painting.”

About the draw window

When you open a new draw document, you see the draw menus, tool panel,
and graphics grid (a guide you can use to size, position, and align objects).

To

Do this

Example

Create a blank
draw document

Choose New from the File menu,
select Drawing, and then click OK.

Or, click

on the Default

button bar. (If you don’t see the
button bar, choose Show Button Bar
from the Window menu.)

Draw objects in any type
of document (except
communications)

Select a drawing tool from the
tool panel and drag the pointer
in the document. (If you don’t
see the panel, choose Show Tools
from the Window menu. The
frame tools appear).

*

Choose Index from the Help menu and type the first few letters of the entry. Double-click the
entry and then double-click a topic.

In the Help index,

*

see:

E

documents, creating

E

documents, opening

A draw document

Circle drawn in a
spreadsheet document

In the Help index,

*

see:

E

draw documents

E

grids

E

rulers

E

tools