Shapes  

What do you want to do?

You can insert a shape in a map background to enhance the look of your map. You can insert rectangles, circles, and horizontal and vertical divider lines. You can modify a shape's outline and transparency. You can change the fill of a rectangle or a circle.

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Insert shapes

  1. On the Insert tab, in the Objects group, click Shapes.

  1. Click Rectangle, Circle, Horizontal Divider or Vertical Divider.

  2. Click in the map where you want to add the shape, and drag.

You can insert a shape with the identical formatting of the last shape of that type that you inserted by choosing that shape option from the Shapes pull down and clicking on the canvas. For more information about formatting shapes, see Work with objects.

 

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