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Slant & Corner Radius

Slants the selected object, or rounds the corners of a rectangular object.

To access this command...

Choose Format - Text Box and Shape - Object - Position and Size - Slant & Corner Radius tab.

Slant and Corner Radius tab page

Corner Radius

You can only round the corners of a rectangular object.

Radius

Enter the radius of the circle that you want to use to round the corners.

Slant

Slants the selected object along an axis that you specify.

Angle

Enter the angle of the slant axis.. The slant angle relates to how much an object inclines or slants from its normal vertical position.

Control points 1 and 2

Some shapes have a special handle which you can drag to change the properties of the shape. The mouse pointer changes to a hand symbol over these special handles. The control points refers to the X and Y coordinates of the position of these handles. When the object has no handle, the values in these boxes are zero. When the shape has one control point, the coordinates of the other control point are zero.

Enter a value to set the X and Y coordinates of the control points of the object.

Control points in a shape