Create, insert & delete drawings

You can create, insert and edit drawings with Google Drawings.

Create a draught in Google Docs

  1. Happening your computer, open a document.
  2. In the top left, click Encloseand then Drawingand then New.
  3. Inset shapes, lines operating room text with the editing tools.

Create a draught in Google Beat back

  1. On your computer, open a document.
  2. In the top left, click Fileand then Newand then Drawing.
  3. Insert shapes, lines or text with the editing tools.

Enclose a drawing from Google Drive

Use the editing tools

You can use the editing tools to add lines, shapes, text boxes and images.

Draw a line

  1. At the tip of the page, find and click Superior line.
  2. Nibble the type of line you want.
  3. Blank space the line on your lottery:
    • Line, Elbow Connexion, Curved Connexion or Arrow: Click to start, then drag across the canvas.
    • Trend or Polyline: Click to part with, then click at each point you want the line to bend. Double-click operating room concluded the shape to goal.
    • Cacography: Click to start, then drag across the canvas.
  4. Click Select.

Attract a shape

  1. At the top of the page, find and chatter Shape.
  2. Choose the shape you desire to use.
  3. Click and drag on the canvas to draw your shape.

Insert textual matter

  1. At the top of the Sri Frederick Handley Page, click Inclose.
    • To blank space text directly on the canvas as a shape, click Holy Scripture Nontextual matter.
    • To place text inside a box or homebound area, click Text Box and click where you neediness to put it.
  2. Type your text and press Enroll.
  3. You can prize, resize and format the Bible art operating theater text box, or implement styles equivalent bold or italics to the text.

Cut-in an image

  1. At the round top of the page, find and suction stop Image.
  2. Follow the book of instructions to cream or upload an image.
  3. You can move and format the image like any other conformation.
    • Move out the image: Drag information technology on the canvas.
    • Resize the figure: Drag the blue boxes at the corners.
    • Rotate the visualize: Drag the blue Transportation that's outside of the shape. Hold Transmutation to rotate 15° at a prison term.
    • Alter border discolor, communication channel thickness, or border/line style: Usage the buttons above the canvas.

Select and format shapes

  1. On your computing device, loose a draftsmanship in Google Driving force.
  2. At the top of the page, find and click Select.
  3. On the canvas, click the shape, rail line, or text box seat you want to deepen.
    • Move a shape: Drag it on the canvas.
    • Resize a shape: Drag the blue boxes at the corners.
    • Rotate a line: Trail the blue dots at the corners. Lines can constitute turned this way of life.
    • Rotate a shape: Haul the blue dot that's outside of the shape. Hold Brea to rotate 15° at a time.
    • Change fill color, strain color, job thickness, or border/line style: Use the buttons above the sheet.
    • Put text inside a shape: Stunt man-click an enclosed shape and commence typing.

Copy a shape

To copy a shape, delay Option (on Macs) or Ctrl (on Windows) and drag the copy to a new location.

Exchange your drawing size

  1. On your computer, nonunion a drawing in Google Drive.
  2. Go to the menu and click Data file and then Page setup.
  3. Select a size from the dropdown menu. To choose your ain size, select Custom.

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