Each shape can be customized and formatted in endless ways so that you can get just the right look.

Solid shapes can act as containers for text and even pictures.

Click the Media browsers Shapes tab to display the built-in shapes available to you.

You can filter shapes by category by clicking the All-Shapes pop-up menu at the top of the Media browser.

To add text, you can simply start typing while a solid shape is selected.

Every solid shape has a line that is the border of the shape.

You can make a solid shape by connecting a line to itself to form a fillable area.

You can adjust the elbows by dragging the yellow diamond associated with the elbow.

Connectors are sticky in that if you connect the ends to other objects, when you move those objects the connector stays attached to the object.

Action Buttons have built-in properties that you can use for navigation, playing media, running macros, and more.

You can also drag a shape from the browser: Right-click a shape in the browser and choose copy to copy it to the Clipboard.

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