Workspace

The Microsoft Expression Design workspace is an essentially boundless space in which you can draw. It includes an artboard (or document frame), which is the size of your finished artwork, a Toolbox, an Action Bar, and movable panels that display editable information about the art being created.

In This Section

This section contains the following topics:

• Adjusting your workspace

• Toolbox

• Action Bar

• Properties panel

• Layers panel

• Use scroll bars, sliders, and galleries in panels

• Use the page grid

• Use ruler guides

• Create and use object guides

• Snap to guides, grid, and points

• Display settings

• Options

• Keyboard shortcuts

See also

Concepts

Drawing objects

Fills and strokes

Selecting objects

Layers

Moving and arranging objects