USING THE KEYBOARD WHEN SIZING
OBJECTS
Resizing drawing objects in Word 2000
is a pretty simple procedure.
You just grab one of the corners of
the object and drag to make it
larger. Grab one of the side selection
handles and you stretch the
object, skewing its proportional
shape. Grab a corner and you can
increase and decrease the object's
size while maintaining proportions.
You may not have known that using the
keyboard gives you even more
resizing options. Hold down the Ctrl
key when resizing, and you'll
find that you can adjust both the side
and corner you're grabbing and
its opposite simultaneously,
maintaining the object's position on the
page. This technique is very useful
when you have a drawing object
that's centered on a page and you want
to resize it without having to
re-center it.