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Contour Editor

Changes the contour of the selected object. Office uses the contour when determining the text wrap options for the object.

Displays a preview of the contour.

To access this command...

Choose Format - Wrap - Edit Contour.

Apply

Applies the contour to the selected object.

Apply

Workspace

Deletes the custom contour. Click here, and then click in the preview area.

Workspace

Select

Changes to selection mode, so that you can select the contour.

Select

Rectangle

Draws a rectangular contour where you drag in the object preview. To draw a square, hold down Shift while you drag.

Rectangle

Ellipse

Draws an oval contour where you drag in the object preview. To draw a circle, hold down shift while you drag.

Ellipse

Polygon

Draws a closed contour consisting of straight line segments. Click where you want to start the polygon, and drag to draw a line segment. Click again to define the end of the line segment, and continue clicking to define the remaining line segments of the polygon. Double-click to finish drawing the polygon. To constrain the polygon to angles of 45 degree, hold down Shift when you click.

Polygon

Edit Points

Lets you change the shape of the contour. Click here, and then drag the handles of the contour.

Edit Points

Move Points

Lets you drag the handles of the contour to change the shape of the contour.

Move Points

Insert Points

Inserts a handle that you can drag to change the shape of the contour. Click here, and then click on the contour outline.

Insert Points

Delete Points

Removes a point from the contour outline. Click here, and then click the point that you want to delete.

Delete Points

Auto Contour

Automatically draws a contour around the object that you can edit.

AutoContour

Undo

Reverses the last action.

Undo

Redo

Reverses the action of the last Undo command.

Redo

Colour Replacer

Selects the parts of the bitmap that are the same colour. Click here, and then click a colour in the bitmap. To increase the colour range that is selected, increase the value in the Tolerance box.

Colour Replacer

Tolerance

Enter the colour tolerance for the Colour Replacer as a percentage. To increase the colour range that the Colour Replacer selects, enter a high percentage.