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Adobe InDesign 2025 Basics | macOS Edition
  • Introduction
  • Setting up your project
    • Connecting to Your Class Folder
    • Creating a Project Folder
    • Opening InDesign
    • Creating a New Document
    • Opening an Existing InDesign Project
    • Saving Your Project
  • Working with text
    • Creating a Text Box
    • Moving a Text Box
    • Resizing a Text Box
    • Deleting a Text Box
    • Using Overset Text Button
    • Formatting Text
    • Character Formatting Controls
    • Paragraph Formatting Controls
  • Working with tools
    • Selection Tools
    • Drawing and Type Tools
    • Transformation Tools
    • Modification and Navigation Tools
  • Working with images
    • Adding an Image to Your Document
    • Resizing an Image and Its Frame
    • Resizing and Repositioning an Image in Its Frame
    • Changing Object Stacking Order
    • Wrapping Text to an Image
    • Deleting an Image
  • Working with shapes, strokes, and color
    • Creating a Shape
    • Creating a Line
    • Creating a Custom Color
    • Creating a Gradient
    • Changing the Fill Color of a Shape
    • Changing the Color of a Stroke
    • Changing the Weight of a Stroke
    • Changing the Stroke Type
    • Removing a Stroke
  • Working with layers
    • Selecting a Layer
    • Locking or Unlocking a Layer
    • Changing Layer Visibility
    • Creating a New Layer
    • Moving a Layer
    • Deleting a Layer
  • Exporting a PDF
    • Exporting a PDF
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  • Click and drag
  • Manually enter dimensions

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  1. Working with shapes, strokes, and color

Creating a Shape

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Click and drag

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

  1. Click and hold the 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 active, single click your document to bring up the shape's dialog box.

  1. Click and hold the 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.)

Shape tool
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