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<p class="Head1"><help:help-id value="RID_DRAW_TOOLBOX"/><help:link Id="67110">The Main Toolbar in the Drawing, Notes and Handout Views</help:link></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible">The main toolbar appears to the left of the document in the default view.</help:help-text> This <help:popup Id="65619" Eid="andocken">dockable</help:popup> toolbar contains the most important editing tools. Many of the icons display <help:popup Id="65630" Eid="abreissleiste">floating toolbars</help:popup> containing additional icons. Icons under which floating toolbars are found have a small triangle on the icon button. Long-click an icon to open the floating toolbar.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Objects can be selected by clicking them with the selection tool.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">If the Shift key is held down whilst clicking on several objects then they will all be selected together.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">If several objects overlap then press and hold the <help:switch select="System"><help:case select="MAC">Option</help:case><help:default>Alt</help:default></help:switch> key and click to select the objects in the back. Each click selects the next object, use Shift + <help:switch select="System"><help:case select="MAC">Option</help:case><help:default>Alt</help:default></help:switch> to select the previous object instead.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Most of the editing tools affect selected objects which are denoted by eight small handles. When you double click a selected object, the handles increase to show that text linked to the object can now be entered. To remove the selection, click outside of the selected object at any time.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">This tool is used to rotate the object. It corresponds to the command <span class="T1">Rotate</span> found on the <span class="T1"><help:productname xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname> Draw</span> Main Toolbar under <span class="T1">Effects</span>.</p>
