Creating a Shape

Click and drag

Click and drag the Shape tool to create a rectangle, elispe, or polygon on your document.

1. Click and hold the Shape tool in the Toolbar.

2. In the fly-out menu, choose an ellipse, rectangle, or polygon.

3. Click and drag to create the shape on your document. To create a square, circle, or polygon with equidistant sides, press and hold Shift on your keyboard as you click and drag.

Manually enter dimensions

With the Shape tool active, single click your document to bring up the shape's dialog box.

1. Click and hold the Shape tool in the Toolbar.

2. In the fly-out menu, choose an ellipse, rectangle, or polygon.

3. Click once (don't click and drag) on your document. A dialog box will appear.

4. Enter width and height values for your shape. The polygon dialog box will let you specify the shape's number of sides (allowing you to create a star, triangle, etc.)