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Google drawings enhancements
Monday, May 17, 2010
Since we launched the new drawings editor, we’ve received lots of helpful feedback from you. Based on your comments, we’ve made some usability improvements to Google Docs drawings over the last week.
Selecting shapes
Press Alt (Option on Mac) and drag your mouse to select only those objects completely within the selection region (this is useful for selecting objects in a busy part of the diagram)
Holding Shift while you drag now adds shapes to your current selection instead of creating a new selection
Polyline improvements
When you finish drawing a polyline by clicking on the end of the last segment, you remain in polyline mode so you can immediately draw another one. Hit Escape to return to selection mode.
While drawing a polyline, press escape on your keyboard to cancel the last segment and return to selection mode
Draw very small segments in a polyline more easily
Word art
Add word art directly from the insert menu
Let us know if you have more
feedback and ideas
for improvements.
Posted by: Chris Nokleberg, Software Engineer
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