You can make the optical design of your FlexPro diagram and table documents and the presentation objects more interesting by using shapes. Use the buttons under Design[Illustrations] toolbar to create lines, arrows, ellipses, rectangles, circles, arcs, polylines, polygons and labels. After drawing an object, you can give it a color or a pattern, change the line type and color of the object, or change, move, rotate or resize it. In the document you can also combine the objects drawn with graphics, which you have inserted into the document. You can copy objects and insert the objects into a different location in the document or into a different document or presentation object.

You can re-shape polylines and polygons at a later time. You can combine any freeform surfaces from arcs, lines and polylines and then fill them or give them a pattern.

Use the Label and Text Box shapes for shorter text and headings that you want to insert into a document or a diagram. The text box can optionally have a border around it and the text can be aligned horizontally or vertically in the rectangular box. Larger blocks of text that use different fonts and font sizes should be embedded into the document as text objects.

You can protect shapes, such as those in the header and footer of a document, from being edited accidentally.

When you insert shapes into a diagram or table, they are displayed not only in the current view of the presentation object, but also in any links you had inserted into a document or worksheet. If the size, i.e. width and height, of a link differs from that of the diagram itself, then these shapes will be transformed to the required target dimensions when displayed in the link. Use the Drawing Tools [Arrange] > Show in This View Only command for shapes that should not be displayed in all views.

See Also

Document

Presentation Objects

Working with Shapes

Drawing a Line, Rectangle, Ellipse, Arc or Other Shapes

Adding Labels

Cutting Shapes

Protecting Shapes

Showing Shapes on Virtual Subsequent Pages

Connecting Shapes to Freeform Surfaces

Adding and Deleting Arrowheads

Adding, Changing or Deleting a Fill Color or a Pattern

Reusing Display Attributes

Changing Line Style and Line Width

Changing the Line and Fill Transparency

Changing the Color of a Line, Arc, Label or Border

Inserting Symbols and Formatting Labels