Drawing shapes and lines

Drawing shapes and lines enhances the look of a spreadsheet. You can access tools for drawing shapes and lines from a toolbar. Quattro Pro lets you draw lines and shapes in a floating graphics window or on a spreadsheet. Some of the shapes available in Quattro Pro include squares, arrows, flowchart shapes, callout shapes, and stars.


To display the Drawing Tools toolbar

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Click View Wordperfect Quattro Pro onestep Drawing shapes and lines Toolbars.
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Enable the Drawing tools check box in the Toolbar list.

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You can dock a floating toolbar by dragging it to the toolbar area.

To draw a line

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Click the spreadsheet.
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Open the Line Wordperfect Quattro Pro pgx lineflyout Drawing shapes and lines flyout on the Drawing tools toolbar, and click one of the following buttons:
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Line Wordperfect Quattro Pro pgx btnline Drawing shapes and lines — lets you draw a straight line
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Freehand Wordperfect Quattro Pro pgx freehand Drawing shapes and lines — lets you draw a freehand line
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Arc Wordperfect Quattro Pro pgx arc Drawing shapes and lines — lets you draw an arc
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Line double dot Wordperfect Quattro Pro pgx twodotline Drawing shapes and lines — lets you draw a line with a dot on each end
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Arrow Wordperfect Quattro Pro pgx btnarrow Drawing shapes and lines — lets you draw a straight arrow
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Double arrow Wordperfect Quattro Pro pgx twoarrows Drawing shapes and lines — lets you draw a line with an arrow on each end
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Line dot arrow Wordperfect Quattro Pro pgx dotarrow Drawing shapes and lines — lets you draw a line with a dot on one end and an arrow on the other
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Position the pointer where you want to start the line.
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Drag to draw the line.

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You can draw lines in a floating graphics window by clicking in the center of the window.
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You can also draw a line by clicking Insert Wordperfect Quattro Pro onestep Drawing shapes and lines Shapes, and clicking Line.
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You can close an open shape created with the Freehand drawing tool by double-clicking the shape (you will see small white circles wherever the line curved when creating the shape), and dragging one of the end points to join with the other end point. The closed shape automatically has a default fill color. For information about changing the fill color of drawn objects, see “To fill a shape.”

To draw a polyline or polycurve

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Click the spreadsheet.
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Open the Line Wordperfect Quattro Pro pgx lineflyout Drawing shapes and lines flyout on the Drawing tools toolbar, and click one of the following buttons:
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Polycurve Wordperfect Quattro Pro pgx polycurve Drawing shapes and lines — lets you insert a line with multiple curves
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Polyline Wordperfect Quattro Pro pgx polyline Drawing shapes and lines — lets you draw a line with any number of straight segments
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Polyline arrow Wordperfect Quattro Pro pgx polyarrow Drawing shapes and lines — lets you draw a polyline with an arrow on the end
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Polyline double arrow Wordperfect Quattro Pro pgx polytwoarrows Drawing shapes and lines — lets you draw a polyline with an arrow on each end
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Polyline dot arrow Wordperfect Quattro Pro pgx polydotarrow Drawing shapes and lines — lets you draw a polyline with a dot on one end and an arrow on the other
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Position the pointer where you want to start the line.
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Drag the pointer to draw a segment.
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Double-click to end the polyline or polycurve.

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You can draw a polyline or polycurve in a floating graphics window by clicking in the center of the window.

To draw a shape

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Click the spreadsheet.
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Open one of the following flyouts on the Drawing tools toolbar:
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Basic shapes Wordperfect Quattro Pro pgx basicshapes Drawing shapes and lines
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Arrow shapes Wordperfect Quattro Pro pgx arrowshapes Drawing shapes and lines
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Flowchart shapes Wordperfect Quattro Pro pgx flowchartshapes Drawing shapes and lines
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Callout shapes Wordperfect Quattro Pro Drawing shapes and lines uattro-pro/en/source/images/pgx_calloutshapes.jpg" height="17" width="119" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0">
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Star shapes Wordperfect Quattro Pro pgx starshapes Drawing shapes and lines
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Click to choose a shape.
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Drag the pointer to draw.

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You can draw a shape in a floating chart window by clicking in the center of the window.
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If you want to create a perfect square or circle, hold down Shift while dragging.
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You can also draw shapes by clicking Insert Wordperfect Quattro Pro onestep Drawing shapes and lines Shapes, and clicking a shape.

Drawing shapes and lines