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Selecting and moving images – Apple AppleWorks 5 : Mac OS User Manual

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AppleWorks 5 User’s Manual

Selecting and moving images

Before you can change an image, you must first select it.

You can move a selected image with the pointer or the arrow keys on the
keyboard.

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Choose Index from the

or Help menu and scroll to the entry. Then choose a topic from

the list and click Go To Topic.

To select

Do this

Example

A rectangular area

Click the selection rectangle

and drag

it over the area to select. You can select all
or part of an image.

The outline of an image

Hold down

2 as you drag the selection

rectangle around the image you want to
select.

Everything in the document

Double-click the selection rectangle

.

An irregular shape without
selecting the surrounding
white space

Click the lasso

and drag it around the

area you want to select. The loop closes
automatically.

By color, when you want to
select shapes that are difficult
to lasso

Click the magic wand

and click an

area. AppleWorks selects all adjacent
pixels of the selected color. To select more
than one color area, click the magic wand
and drag it across multiple colors.

To Do

this

Move a selected image with the pointer

Move the pointer over the image until it becomes

an arrow, and then drag the image to a new
location. The image stays selected until you click
elsewhere in the document.

Move a selected image vertically or
horizontally one pixel at a time

With the autogrid off (choose Turn Autogrid Off from
the Options menu), press the arrow keys.

Move a selected image eight pixels at
a time

With the autogrid on (choose Turn Autogrid On
from the Options menu), press the arrow keys.

Change the distance that the image
moves each time you press an arrow key

Choose Turn Autogrid On from the Options menu.
Choose Grid Size from the Options menu, and then
select a size.

In the Help index,

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see:

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images, arranging