Combine shapes

You can combine shapes to create more complex shapes or to remove parts of a shape. You can envelope another element.

Note: Panels, captions, and bubbles can be sources and destinations for the operations enabling the creation of more complex elements. Lettering can only be a source path for these operations. It cannot be destination.


  1. Hold down the Shift key while you click two or more elements that are touching or overlapping.
  2. From the Format > Shape menu (the Format menu at the top of your screen) choose one of the following:

See also

Fill elements with color, halftone or an image

Resize and rotate elements

Position and align elements