Aha! Whiteboards | Shapes

Add shapes to your whiteboard to build diagrams and illustrate processes, show relationships, visualize early-stage plans, and more.

Create a shape by clicking the Shape icon on your toolbar and choosing a shape. Then click into your whiteboard to insert it.

• Resize a shape by selecting and dragging its corners.

• Rotate a shape by selecting the rotation icon and dragging it to your desired angle.

• Format a shape using the customization options above it — you can edit the fill color and opacity or the line weight, color, and style.

• Add text to an object by double-clicking the object, then begin typing. Align text you have added to an object by selecting the object and clicking the Align button.

• Add a comment with the comment icon on the shape's toolbar.

• Lock the shape so that it cannot be edited.

• Use the More options menu to cut, copy, paste, link to, or group the text box, as well as bringing it forward or back in relation to other objects.

• Use the Pin icon in the upper right of your Shapes menu to keep it open — so you can add multiple shapes at once.

Shapes often exist in relationship to other shapes — and just as often, you need to add duplicates of the same shape. You can do both of these things easily:

• Click one of the small blue dots that appear outside the shape's border. This will create a copy of the shape joined by a connector to the original.

• Click and drag to create a connector without creating another shape. If you end the new connector in another object's small blue dots, those two objects will remain connected even if they are moved later.