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★ Select the Polygon tool and create a rectangular shaped object with four selection points (please note other objects when created have 8 selection points).

★ Now select the Arrow Tool. With this tool, when you bring the cursor near to the boundary of the selected polygon, the cursor

changes shape to a cross with a dot. This cursor signifies that you can add a selection point to the ploygon.

★ Click with this Cross with a Dot Cursor where ever you wish to introduce an additional point. Each of selection point can be selected and tweaked to change the overall shape of the polygon.

★ You can repeat step 3 to reach a new polygon.

To draw a line at any angle, keep the SHIFT key pressed while creating or modifying the line.

First select the line. Enter the new value in the Width or the line thickness field of the ribbon and press enter/return.

After having selected the line, select the Fill Color from the Fill Color combo box.

Select the Line Tool from the Tool Strip. Now click with the CROSS cursor in the document Area and while keeping the mouse pressed, drag the mouse. The Ribbon shows the two end points of the line. When the requisite length of the line has been achieved, leave the mouse. In the normal mode, this tool draws horizontal, vertical and lines at 45 degrees.For a horizontal line, move the mouse horizontally. For a vertical straight line, move the mouse vertically. If a 45 degree line is required, move the mouse such that the amount of movement both horizontally and vertically is same.

Group feature allows you to group multiple objects as one. This enables you to treat the grouped objects as one entity and apply various object attributes to all of them as one. Ungroup reverses this process.

Rotation Tool allows you to fix the axis around which the selected objects will be rotated. To rotate objects using this tool, you will first need to select the objects using the ARROW Tool. Once the objects have been selected, you can choose the Rotation Tool. The cursor will change to Rotation Cursor. Clicking with this cursor at a point will set the point around which the selected objects will be rotated. Keeping the mouse pressed, you can rotate the selected objects and let go off the mouse the moment you have achieved the required rotation.

★ Select this Delinking Tool.

You will notice that all the text boxes on the visible pages will display the linked to and linked from arrows. Thus you can see how a particular text box is linked in a text chain.

★ When you bring the cursor on text of a text box that forms part of a text chain, you will notice that the cursor changes to the 'Break Link' shape. If you now click the text box when the shape of the cursor is 'Break Link', the link will break at that text box. In other words this text box and other subsequent text boxes in this text chain will get separated from the existing chain and the text chain will break into two text chains.

If you keep the SHIFT pressed while creating the Text box, then the Text box is created with equal height and width.

On moving the cursor on and around the boundary of the Text box, the cursor takes the ARROW shape. Inside the Text box, the cursor is displayed as the Dotted IBEAM. If you now click inside the Text box with this Dotted IBEAM cursor, the cursor shape changes to IBEAM and a caret appears at the empty Text box is in Text Edit mode and this is positioned at mouse click. The text box boundary from gray to black.

To select, move and/or resize a Text box, you need to follow the steps as outlined above for selecting/moving/resizing an object.

A Text box can be given a border. For this you need to specify the width of the border in points in ribbon and also the color by selecting the border color. Further this border can be drawn inside text box or outside.

Whenever this Text box overlaps a Text box with text, then the text tends to flow away from this overlapping Text box. The amount by which the text flows away can be specified by specifying the Run Around amount. See the Ribbon Object Attribute below.

For a text chain, you can specify whether the text in this chain will wrap around objects or not. Thus irrespective of the fact that the object intersecting with this chain has run around attribute as ON or OFF, if you set this attribute OFF, then text in this chain will not wrap around objects. For modifying this attribute, you will need to go to Text Wrap menu item in the Format menu.

You can inset the text inside a Text box along left, right, top and bottom directions, so that the text now appears in smaller bounds inset from the Text Box boundary. This is particularly useful for Text box framed with a border.

You can specify the number of columns and the gutter size for a selected text box. By default a text box is assumed to be of single column.

If you move the mouse on top of a text box, then the cursor changes to DOTTED IBEAM cursor. On clicking the text box with this cursor, changes to SOLID IBEAM. Also the boundary of the text box will change to black indicating the currently selected text Chain. In this mode the ribbon changes to Text Attributes mode.

You can apply hatch patterns to text box. This allows you to output text super imposed on a surrounding hatch pattern.

You can choose an Elliptical shape radio button in the Format Text box dialog. This allows you to have circular text boxes.