Open office writer uses the drawing tools, to create various shapes by using the Drawing toolbar. To use the drawing tools repeatedly, you can move this toolbar to a convenient place on the window. The drawing toolbar can be obtained by clicking View → Toolbars → Drawing.
To use a drawing tool, the steps are as given below:
1. Click in the document where you want the drawing to be anchored.
2. Select the tool from the Drawing toolbar. The mouse pointer changes to a drawing- functions pointer.
3. Move the cross-hair pointer to the place in the document where you want the graphic to appear and then click-and-drag to create the drawing object.
4. Release the mouse button. The selected drawing function remains active, so you can draw another object of the same type.
5. To cancel the selected drawing function, press the Esc key or click on the Select icon on the Drawing toolbar.
6. You can now change the properties (fill color, line type and weight, anchoring, and others) of the drawing object using either the Drawing Object Properties toolbar or the choices in the dialog box.
