Drawing lines, arrows, and shapes

Drawing lines, arrows, and other shapes on a graph

1.	Click on the drawing tool in the Drawing toolbar:

Note: The tool you used most recently will show as the default drawing button on the main Prism toolbar.

2.	Position the mouse pointer (now a pencil) at one end of the line or arrow (or one corner of the box or oval).

3.	Hold down the primary mouse button and drag to the other end (or to the diagonally opposite corner). Hold the control key if you want to draw a perfect circle or square.

If you want to draw several objects, hold Shift while selecting the drawing tool. Then you'll be able to use it repeatedly without selecting it again. Click any other Toolbar button to unselect the drawing tool.

Changing the appearance of a drawing object (line, arrow, square, etc.)

Select any object (or several objects) and double-click to bring up the Format Object dialog. Choose the thickness, color, and style of lines or borders; the fill color and shading of shapes; and arrowhead direction, size, and style.

For a line, for example, you can choose to have no arrowheads, or arrowheads on one or both ends. You can also choose to caps on the ends of a line instead or arrows.

You also can right-click on any drawing object to change individual properties like color and line thickness.