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H=Handles

What are handles? Small boxes that appear on the corners and sides of the bounding box of an object when selected. You use handles to resize or slant an object.

In Select mode, objects you select are surrounded by eight handles. (If the object is a line, only two handles appear, one at either end.) If several objects are selected at once, the handles surround all the selected objects.

Select mode lets you change the size of a selected object by dragging its handles.

If you drag a corner handle, you enlarge or shrink the object while maintaining its original proportions.

If you drag a side handle, you stretch the object and change its proportions.

In Rotate/Slant mode, objects you select show a rotation handle connected to a center pivot point and are surrounded by eight handles. (If the object is a line, only two surrounding handles appear, one at either end of the line.) If several objects are selected at once, the surrounding handles enclose all the selected objects.

Rotate/Slant mode lets you rotate, slant, and size a selected object by dragging its handles.

If you drag the rotation handle in a circular motion, you rotate the object around its pivot point. To change the location of the pivot point, drag the point to the new location.

If you drag a side handle, you slant the object.

If you drag a corner handle, you enlarge or shrink the object while maintaining its original proportions.

Note
A text object cannot be slanted unless it is first converted to curves. An OLE object cannot be rotated or slanted. When an object cannot be rotated or slanted, the rotate and slant handles are gray.

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Last Updated: 08/04/00