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7. Release the mouse button to create the rectangle.
The new shape has a 1-pt black stroke and Position and dimensions
fill of none because you reset the default fill of the selected object. Bounding box handles
and stroke before you created the shape.
Every shape you create in an InDesign
document has a bounding box, which is a
non-printing rectangle that marks the outer
dimensions of the shape. (Even a circle
has a square bounding box, marking the
largest height and width of the object.) The
bounding box has eight handles, which you
can drag to change the size of the rectangle.
If you can see an object’s bounding box
handles, that object is selected.

8. At the bottom of the Tools panel, click the Swap Fill and Stroke button.
The object no has a black fill and a stroke of none (the opposite of its original settings
in Step 7). Because you turned off the Dimensions Include Stroke Weight option,
removing the stroke has no effect on the object’s size.

The object’s size
is not changed.

Swap Fill and
Stroke button
9. At the left end of the Control panel, select the top-left reference point.

The Control panel is context-sensitive, which means different options are available
depending on what is selected in the document. This panel consolidates the most
common options from multiple InDesign panels.
The reference point determines how transformations will occur (in other words, which
point of the object will remain in place if you change one of the position or dimension
values). These points correspond to the object’s bounding box handles, as well as to the
object’s exact center point.
Constrain proportions Constrain proportions
for width & height for scaling

Transformation Object Scale the object by a
reference point dimensions specific percentage

Object position

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