Microsoft Designer has secret key shortcuts to quickly insert shapes and text boxes without jumping to the side menus.
All you need to do is press a single letter key to insert one of these shapes:
R – Rectangle (inserts a square)
C – Circle
L – Line
T – Text
Each of these shortcuts adds a simple shape or text box to the design,
That’s a lot easier than hunting around on the Visuals menu. Each of those shortcuts inserts a small version of a rectangle, circle or line that you can resize, color and move.
More than one Circle or Rectangle
Keep in mind that Designer has a wide-range of options for each shape. At Visuals | Graphics and search for ‘Circle’ to see over 40 choices. There’s a similar range of choices for other shapes.
A modest proposal for more shortcuts.
We’re obliged to an Office-Watch reader ‘VM’ for this intel. He also suggests some more single-press keys that Microsoft could add.
S – Square (so that “R” shortcut can insert a true rectangle)
3 – Triangle (3 sides)
5 – Pentagon (5 sides)
6 – Hexagon (6 sides)
8 – Octagon (8 sides)
P – add a Page to the design
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