Using the Draw menu to create shapes, do math, and highlight
The Draw menu has a lot of choices for us. In Chapter 4, Entering Information into Your Notebook, you learned how to draw freehand with fancy-colored pens. Now, we will use those same pens to help us with creating shapes, doing math, and highlighting.
Let's start by learning how to create shapes.
Creating shapes
Creating shapes in OneNote is almost instant when you use the Draw toolbar, as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 8.1 – The Shapes drop-down menu
When you choose Shapes from the Draw toolbar, you can pick one of the following:
- Lines
- Basic Shapes
- Graphs
Lines and basic shapes can be inserted onto your page anywhere. They can exist on their own, or they can be used with text or other information that is on the page. Let's look at the exact steps for adding a shape to your page. Our first shape example will be for adding a line.
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