1*cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2*cdf0e10cSrcweir<helpdocument version="1.0"> 3*cdf0e10cSrcweir 4*cdf0e10cSrcweir<!-- 5*cdf0e10cSrcweir*********************************************************************** 6*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 7*cdf0e10cSrcweir * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 8*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 9*cdf0e10cSrcweir * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 10*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 11*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 12*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 13*cdf0e10cSrcweir * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 14*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 15*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 16*cdf0e10cSrcweir * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 17*cdf0e10cSrcweir * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 18*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 19*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 20*cdf0e10cSrcweir * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 21*cdf0e10cSrcweir * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 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If not, see 27*cdf0e10cSrcweir * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 28*cdf0e10cSrcweir * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 29*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 30*cdf0e10cSrcweir ************************************************************************ 31*cdf0e10cSrcweir --> 32*cdf0e10cSrcweir 33*cdf0e10cSrcweir 34*cdf0e10cSrcweir<meta> 35*cdf0e10cSrcweir<topic id="textsdrawguiderotate_objectxml" indexer="include"> 36*cdf0e10cSrcweir<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Rotating Objects</title> 37*cdf0e10cSrcweir<filename>/text/sdraw/guide/rotate_object.xhp</filename> 38*cdf0e10cSrcweir</topic> 39*cdf0e10cSrcweir</meta> 40*cdf0e10cSrcweir<body> 41*cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3154684"><bookmark_value>rotating; draw objects</bookmark_value> 42*cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark_value>draw objects; rotating</bookmark_value> 43*cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark_value>pivot points of draw objects</bookmark_value> 44*cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark_value>skewing draw objects</bookmark_value> 45*cdf0e10cSrcweir</bookmark> 46*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154684" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="12"><variable id="rotate_object"><link href="text/sdraw/guide/rotate_object.xhp" name="Rotating Objects">Rotating Objects</link> 47*cdf0e10cSrcweir</variable></paragraph> 48*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149262" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">You can rotate an object around its default pivot point (center point) or a pivot point that you designate.</paragraph> 49*cdf0e10cSrcweir<table id="tbl_id3148575"> 50*cdf0e10cSrcweir<tablerow> 51*cdf0e10cSrcweir<tablecell> 52*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146975" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="E"> 53*cdf0e10cSrcweir<image id="img_id3154729" src="res/commandimagelist/sc_toggleobjectrotatemode.png" width="0.564cm" height="0.564cm"><alt id="alt_id3154729" xml-lang="en-US">Icon</alt> 54*cdf0e10cSrcweir </image></paragraph> 55*cdf0e10cSrcweir</tablecell> 56*cdf0e10cSrcweir<tablecell> 57*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150716" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="14">Select the object you want to rotate. On the <emph>Mode</emph> toolbar in $[officename] Draw or on the <emph>Drawing</emph> bar in $[officename] Impress, click the <emph>Rotate</emph> icon.</paragraph> 58*cdf0e10cSrcweir</tablecell> 59*cdf0e10cSrcweir</tablerow> 60*cdf0e10cSrcweir</table> 61*cdf0e10cSrcweir 62*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149021" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="69">Move the pointer to a corner handle so that the pointer changes to a rotate symbol. Drag the handle to rotate the object.</paragraph> 63*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id0930200803002335" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Hold down the Shift key to restrict the rotation to multiples of 15 degrees.</paragraph> 64*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id0930200803002463" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Right-click the object to open the context menu. Choose Position and Size - Rotation to enter an exact rotation value.</paragraph> 65*cdf0e10cSrcweir<table id="tbl_id3149126"> 66*cdf0e10cSrcweir<tablerow> 67*cdf0e10cSrcweir<tablecell> 68*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155962" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="E"> 69*cdf0e10cSrcweir<image id="img_id3154023" src="res/helpimg/rotieren.png" width="5.424cm" height="3.916cm"><alt id="alt_id3154023" xml-lang="en-US">Icon</alt> 70*cdf0e10cSrcweir </image></paragraph> 71*cdf0e10cSrcweir</tablecell> 72*cdf0e10cSrcweir</tablerow> 73*cdf0e10cSrcweir</table> 74*cdf0e10cSrcweir 75*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3166424" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">To change the pivot point, drag the small circle in the center of the object to a new location.</paragraph> 76*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159236" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="28">To skew the object vertically or horizontally, drag one of the side handles.</paragraph> 77*cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="relatedtopics"> 78*cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/simpress/guide/select_object.xhp#select_object"/> 79*cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 80*cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 81*cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 82