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Reverse path
Press the Reverse path button on the InfoBar to switch around the head and tail
of the selected line.
Adding more line segments

Lines created with the STRAIGHT LINE TOOL are of course fully compatible with the other
drawing tools. So if you want to add more segments to a line, make it curved, or perhaps
even turn it into a closed shape, use the SHAPE EDITOR TOOL.

Rectangle Tool
To draw a rectangle, select the RECTANGLE TOOL and just drag across the page.
You will see a solid filled shape as you drag across the page, indicating the fill
and line color and boundaries of the shape you are drawing.

Click the 'curved corners' button on the InfoBar to make this a rounded rectangle
- and you can drag on the curved corner handle to adjust the roundedness.

You can drag on any corner handle to resize an object.

Drag and drop a color from the Color Line onto your shape to re-color it. See Coloring
Shapes (on page 35). With the SELECTOR TOOL you can drag it, resize it and rotate it as
required. See Selector Tool (on page 23). You can put this rectangle behind all other
objects as a background image, by pressing "Ctrl + B" for 'Put to back'. Alternatively if it's
in front of all other objects ("Ctrl + F") then you can right click on it and select REPEL TEXT
UNDER to make the text on your page repel around the outside of this shape (another
Web Designer Premium first for any web authoring tool.)
Fill Tool

You can easily put a graduated color fill onto a shape using this tool
(and a lot more besides). Select the tool and just drag across your
object.

The fill arrow can be adjusted by dragging the ends to alter the direction, angle and
extent of the graduation.