| Resizing and Reshaping
Resizing Shapes - When in selection mode, clicking on a shape in the document will select it. Selected shapes appear with eight knobs around their edges; dragging one of these knobs will resize the shape. Resizing a shape while holding the Shift key will make it resize proportionally. Resizing Text Boxes - Text boxes are shapes that have been set to autosize when text is entered. Selected text boxes appear with two knobs; dragging one of these knobs will resize the text box horizontally. Once a text box has been resized this way, it will no longer automatically resize horizontally when text is entered. If you want to return to automatically resizing horizontally, use the bottom checkbox on the Shape pane. Clicking once will turn off all autosizing, clicking it again will turn on both horizontal and vertical resizing. Reshaping Lines - Click on a line with the selection tool to select it -- it'll appear with a red knob at the tail point, a green knob at the head, and blue knobs at any intermediate points. Any point with a knob can be moved; the head and tail can be moved to connect them to or disconnect them from shapes and other graphics. Additional midpoints can be added by option-double-clicking anywhere on a selected line. Click on a midpoint and press Delete to remove it.
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