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2. Click the button at the right end of the Control panel to open the panel
Options menu.

3. If the Dimensions Include Stroke Weight option is checked, choose that
item to toggle the option off.
When this option is active, the size of an object’s stroke is factored as part of the overall
object size. Consider, for example, a frame that is 72 points wide by 72 points high with
a 1-point stroke. If you remove the stroke from the frame, the frame would then be only
70 points by 70 points.

Customize Control
Panel button Note:
Click here to open the These options remember
Control panel Options menu. the last-used settings.
This option should be
unchecked (inactive).

Note:

Tools with nested options
4. Choose the Rectangle tool in the Tools panel. default to show the last-
If you don’t see the Rectangle tool, click and hold the default shape tool until the nested used variation in the
tools appear; slide over and down to select the Rectangle tool. main Tools panel.

5. Click the Default Fill and Stroke button at the bottom of the Tools panel.

In InDesign, the default fill is None, and the default stroke is 1-pt black.

6. Click anywhere on the page, and drag down and right to draw a rectangle
that is about 1″ high and 2″ wide.

As you draw, cursor feedback shows the size of the shape you are creating.
Note:
Press Shift while drawing
a shape to constrain the
horizontal and vertical
The blue line dimensions of the shape
previews the shape (in other words, to create
you are drawing. a perfect square or circle).
Rectangle tool
Cursor feedback
shows the size of the
shape you’re drawing.

Default Fill and
Stroke button

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