Resizing Elements

How to Resize Elements

  • Click on an element such as a shape, picture box or text box.
  • By clicking on the box with the Selection Tool, which appears as your default cursor, a series of blue dots will appear around the object. 
  • Click and drag these blue dots to resize the image, as shown below. 
drag photo size
  • To move an object, hover over the object until a hand cursor appears. 
  • Next, click on the object and drag it on the page to a new position. 
hand cursor
  • The image also has a rotation handle, as shown below. One blue dot extends further from the edge of the object frame than the others. You can click and drag this around clockwise or counterclockwise to rotate the image. 
rotate image
  • The image has a swap handle as shown below, you can click this icon and drag the photo to another frame on the page, swapping the photos in the respective frames. 
swap photo

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  1. Kate Brookshire

    I tried searching “swap photos” and got no results. It would seem that I should have been able to search the Help for this. Luckily I happened to randomly see “Swap photos” in the scrolling hints on the sidebar.

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