At 18:08 01/04/2010 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
I want to draw an arc in Draw. I checked the help, and it tells me
to open the Ellipses toolbar. I cannot find this toolbar.
I agree: it appears now to be called Circles and Ovals.
I used Tools > Customize > Toolbars, and I have a toolbar named
Circles and Ovals. OK, great, this toolbar has the items of
interest. Unfortunately, I cannot find this toolbar. I tried View >
Toolbars, and this toolbar is not listed there.
I don't see any way to get this toolbar directly. A number of
buttons in the Drawing toolbar have small down-arrows to their right,
indicating the availability of another toolbar. The smiley face, for
example, spawns the Symbol Shapes toolbar. It seems that the Circles
and Ovals toolbar is spawned by such a button, but that this button
does not appear by default in the Drawing (or any) toolbar!
o Click the down-arrow at the right end of the Drawing (or any) toolbar.
o Select Customize Toolbar... .
o Click Add... .
o Under Category, select Drawing.
o Here, you could just click Arc or Circle Arc under Commands, which
would put the button you need into the Drawing toolbar.
o Alternatively, scroll down the Commands list and notice that there
are two apparently identical entries labelled Ellipse. The first is
the Ellipse button, which is already in the Drawing toolbar; the
second is the one you need: the key to the Circles and Ovals toolbar.
o Select this second Ellipse icon and click Add and Close.
o If desired, use the arrow buttons to move the new button to the
required place on the Drawing toolbar.
o Click OK.
o Now you will see a new ellipse button, this time with the
tell-tale down-arrow to its right. Click the arrow and you will see
the Circles and Ovals toolbar.
No: I don't know why it should be this complicated, either.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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