2.6.5. Using the Line Tool from the Toolbox Window

The Toolbox has eight icons that depict selectable drawing and image manipulation tools. To select a tool, move the mouse/arrow over the icon. The icon will highlight with a box. Click the highlighted icon to select that tool. In the following example, the user moves the mouse pointer over the LINE TOOL and selects that item. Notice how the icon becomes highlighted upon mouse-over:


line tool

Figure 11: Selecting the Line Tool with the pointer




Now the user moves the Line Tool cursor over the slide to the position where a new line is to be made:

instructor's slide


Figure 12: The instructor's slide before Line Tool over layer

Once the appropriate location is determined, (in this case we are underlining some text on the slide,) the user clicks the mouse button to anchor the text. The user holds down the mouse button and drags over to the end-point of the line.  Release mouse button to finish.

line made


Figure 13:  Drawing a line on the layer over the instructor's slide



This example shows the user has made a straight red line on the current layer. It should be noted this is not drawing on the slide itself, it is drawing on the current layer, over the slide.


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