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Editing SmartShapes 131
Timeline SmartShapes 132
Chart SmartShapes 133
Pie chart SmartShapes 135
Table SmartShape 137
Text Panel SmartShapes 140
Arrow SmartShapes 142
Labeled lines 143
Chevron Bar SmartShape 145
Flowline SmartShapes 145
Creating polygons and stars 145
Combining shapes 148
Joining shapes 151
Making shapes editable 152

Drawing Lines and Shapes 154
The Drawing tools 154
The Freehand & Brush Tool 154
Editing lines/shapes with the Freehand & Brush Tool 156
The Straight Line & Arrow tool 158
Shape Painter tool 159
The Shape Tool 161
Extending the line 163
Adding a new point handle 163
Selecting multiple point handles 164
Deleting points 165
Moving point handles—Shape Editor Tool 165
Smoothing a line 166
Constraining the line 167
Changing curves 167
Changing a straight line to a curve (and vice versa) 168
Splitting a shape 169
Changing the line width (thickness) 169
Variable width lines 170
Line Gallery 171
Brushes 173

Page & Layer Gallery 178
The Page & Layer Gallery 178
Pages 180
Layers 180
Layer Operations 183
Special Layers 186
Hiding Layers and Objects 187
Locking Layers and Objects 187
Solo Mode 187