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4. Choose the Selection tool at the top of the Tools panel. Click the left
rectangle on the artboard to select it.

5. With the left rectangle selected, look at the right side of the Control panel.
If you have a smaller monitor and see the word “Transform,” click it to open
the pop-up Transform panel.
Note:
What you see in the Control panel depends on the size of your monitor (or the size of
your Application frame if you’ve made it smaller than your monitor). You could also use
the stand-alone
If you have a wide monitor, the reference point proxy and the X, Y, W, and H fields of Transform panel
the Transform panel are available directly in the Control panel.
(Window>Transform) to
If you have a smaller monitor that does not allow these fields to fit, the Control panel access these same options.
includes a hot-text link to the Transform panel. Clicking the link opens the Transform
panel as a pop-up, directly below the Control panel; after you make a change in the pop-
up panel, it collapses back into the Control panel.

Monitor width might limit the
contents of your Control panel.

Click these hot-text links to
open the related pop-up panel.

With a wider monitor, you can Click these hot-text
access many Transform panel links to open the full
options directly in the Control panel. pop-up panel.
6. Review the Transform options.

The reference points correspond to the
bounding box handles of the selected Reference point
object. The selected square in this icon around which numeric
identifies which point of the object is transformations are based
being measured.
If you use the W or H fields to resize an object, you can constrain the object’s height-
to-width aspect ratio by clicking the chain icon (right of the W and H fields in the
Transform panel, or between the W and H fields in the Control panel).
In Illustrator, the default zero point (the source of measurements) is the top-left corner
of the artboard; the X and Y positions of an object are measured relative to that location.
(The X axis is the horizontal value and the Y axis is the vertical value.) You can change
the zero point by clicking where the horizontal and vertical rulers meet and dragging to
a new position; if you do reposition the zero point, you can double-click the intersection
of the rulers to restore the default zero point.
Keep these ideas in mind when you move something in an –
Illustrator file:
• Moving up requires subtracting from the Y value. y axis
• Moving down requires adding to the Y value. – 0 +
• Moving left requires subtracting from the X value. x axis
• Moving right requires adding to the X value.

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