Adding Shapes

Adding shapes to a book is useful for inserting geometric or custom graphics, breaking up text, adding color or flair, labeling or calling out items, and more. You can

• Add predrawn shapes from a gallery of circles, rectangles, stars, arrows, speech bubbles, and more.

• Add text to predrawn shapes.

• Draw a custom shape.

• Edit a shape.

To add a predrawn shape to a page, choose a shape from the Shapes pop-up menu in the toolbar (Figure 6.7).

Figure 6.7. The Shapes pop-up menu offer predrawn shapes.

To add text to a predrawn shape, click the shape to make the insertion point appear and then type.

Some types of shapes have controls that let you customize them easily. Controls appear on a selected shape itself or in a small pop-up window. You can use sliders, circular controls, and blue editing points to do any of the following: