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Exploring the toolbars

The toolbars consists of buttons that are shortcuts to many of the menu commands. You can specify which toolbars you want to display by choosing View->Toolbars. The following table provides descriptions of the tools in the toolbar.


Button

Description

Create a new drawing.

Open an existing drawing.

Save the active drawing.

Print the active drawing.

Display full pages.

Cut the selection and put it on the Clipboard.

Copy the selection and put it on the Clipboard.

Insert Clipboard contents.

Undo the last action.

Redo the previously undone action.

Display the table of contents for the online documentation.

Changes the font of selections.

Changes the font size of selections.

Makes the selection bold.

Makes the selection italic.

Makes the selection underline.

Make the selection strikeout.

Left jastifies selections.

Center jastifies selections.

Right jastifies selections.

Top jastifies selections.

Middle jastifies selections.

Bottom jastifies selections.

Font color.

Apply a style to the selected objects.

Assign the selected objects to layers.

Setup a line width.

Setup a line pattern.

Begin line ends.

End line ends.

Changes the line color of selections.

Changes the shape pattern of selections.

Changes the pattern color of selections.

Changes the fill color of selections.

Change the shadow of selected objects.

Zoom percentage.

Zoom Out

Zoom In

Zoom a drawing at actual size.

Zoom a drawing at whole size.

Zoom a drawing at poster width.

Zoom so that all objects are visible.

Zoom so that selected objects are visible.

Pointer tool.

Rotation tool.

Switch to Vertices Edit mode.

Match Properties Tool

Display a drawing at any zoom percentage.

Pan a drawing.

Line connector tool.

Dynamic connector tool.

Curve connector tool.

Snap-point tool.

Rectangle tool.

Ellipse tool.

Polygon tool.

Closed curve tool.

Line tool.

Polyline tool.

Curve tool.

Insert a text object into your drawing.

Insert a picture into your drawing.

Flip the selected object(s) about their horizontal axis.

Flip the selected object(s) about their vertical axis.

Rotate the selected object(s) 90 degrees clockwise.

Rotate the selected object(s) 90 degrees counterclockwise.

Align left edges of the selected objects with the dominant object.

Align vertical centers of the selected objects with the dominant object.

Align right edges of the selected objects with the dominant object.

Align top edges of the selected objects with the dominant object.

Align horizontal centers of the selected objects with the dominant object.

Align bottom edges of the selected objects with the dominant object.

Evenly space selected objects horizontally.

Evenly space selected objects vertically.

Resize selected objects to have the same width as the dominant object.

Resize selected objects to have the same height as the dominant object.

Resize selected objects to have the same size as the dominant object.

Bring selected object(s) to front of drawing order.

Send selected object(s) to back of drawing order.

Bring selected object(s) forward in drawing order.

Send selected object(s) backward in drawing order.

Nudge the selected object(s) to top.

Nudge the selected object(s) to bottom.

Nudge the selected object(s) to left.

Nudge the selected object(s) to right.

Ungroup selected group(s).

Group selected objects.

Snap object to grid.

Toggle the display of rulers on/off.

Toggle the display of grid on/off.

Toggle the display of page breaks on/off.

Toggle the display of connection points on/off.

Toggle the display of the Object Explorer window on/off.

Toggle the display of the Libraries window on/of.

Toggle the display of the Pan & Zoom window on/off.

Toggle the display of the Task window on/off

Show object properties.

Switch between normal view mode and maximized viewing area mode.


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