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- Working with Connectors and Text
- All About Connectors
- All About Glue
- Getting from One Glue Type to Another
- Gluing Connectors
- When Connectors Cross
- Automatically Laying Out Shapes
- Drawing Curved Connectors
- Adding Arrows, Points, or Other Line Ends to a Connector
- Working with Text
- Moving Text Blocks
- Resizing Text Blocks
- Aligning Text
- Setting Tab Stops
- Creating Bulleted Lists
- Creating Numbered Lists
- Formatting Paragraphs
- Spell-Checking Your Text
- Formatting Text
- Selecting Background Colors
- Rotating Your Text
- Resizing Text Blocks
- Giving Text Shapes Borders
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Giving Text Shapes Borders
When you use text shapes for captions or titles in your drawing, you might want to surround that text with a border, as shown in Figure 3.46.
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Figure 3.46 A text shape with a border.
You can easily format borders for text shapes. Just right-click the text shape with the Pointer tool and select Format > Line, opening the Line dialog box shown in Figure 3.47.
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Figure 3.47 Formatting lines.
In the Line dialog, you can set these items concerning a text shape's border:
- Pattern—Select from a straight line or various dotted ones.
- Weight—Specify how thick you want the line.
- Color—Set the color of the line.
- Cap—Choose the line's cap: Round, Square, or Extended.
- Transparency—Specify how transparent you want the line.
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