Hello. Let's talk about lines. It is not as boring as it sounds. We're gonna kind of do something fancy with dotted lines  and the little ends on it, but then I'll show you some cool  stuff where things are actually connected  and you can add text that follows it along. Plus, I'm gonna share  with you the super duper most awesome shortcut that rules them all. It's basically the only shortcut you're ever gonna need.

Alright, let's go. Alright,  I'm gonna work on the second page. I'm using page down to jump down there. Uh, let's go to elements and we're looking for the lines. They're under shapes. Okay,  so elements scroll until you find shapes.

Click on see all. You'll notice that  for some reason shapes also has lines. That's okay. You can turn any line into any other line  after you've made it so you  don't have to like really pick it. The start one here, I'm gonna pick this like little barbell  one and I'm going to click hold and drag the line. Or you can drag the little move  thing, get it to where you want.

I want it to go across underneath here. And what you'll notice is that it's really happily snapping  to things, which is mostly good, okay? Sometimes though you just want it to kind of, it's  how I want it to go down 45 degrees. It's really hard to get it to go 45 degrees by dragging it. Can you see 41, 39? Oh, come on.

What you can do is hold down the shift key, okay? If you hold the shift key while I'm still  dragging, so I'm gonna undo that. So I've got it here. I'm dragging it hold shift. It'll lock it into kind of like the kinds  of numbers that you probably want. 45, 90 0, 15, just, it kind of locks it into some,  I don't know, most commonly used angles.

Okay, so we've got it there. Let's go and change a few things  so you can see most of it along the top here. Okay? So it doesn't matter whether you're in  here or along here. Okay, it doesn't matter. Let's have a quick little look.

So end points, those are the barbells. I wanna make it in, let's say an arrow  or kind of more like a dumbbell. The circles on the end, you can see it changes there. Okay? I need to click off to see it. Okay?

Uh, another thing that ends up happening  is let's get rid of them. So none and none. Yeah, so none and none even then they look like  they've got arrows, okay? The beginning and the end of it. Okay? It's nothing there.

Let's go to uh, the style. So where it is type. So let's make it dotted. Let's go into stroke  and under line style here. Okay? You can play with the thickness of it,  but also what kind of line it is.

Is it dotted? Okay. Dashed. Yeah, dotted, dashed. And I don't know the other one. This is too dashed.

Um, the other thing that is useful is let's say  mine's like too big, right? I'm just got mine quite big so you can see it there easily. Um, let's say I want the dots. Um, you can see rounded end gives you that kind  of like more.dot and less square, square square up to you. It works for these ones as well. Can you see if I have a rounded end or not rounded end.

That's also true of a straight line, okay? Sometimes lines look a bit funny when they're not, you know,  when they're kind of like, I've got what's called a butt cap  when it's a nice and flat at the end. This is a rounded cap. Alright? So there's times where you need both. Often when it's small, you can't really tell the difference,  so we won't stress over it.

Let's have a look at some of the  other functionalities of it. I'm gonna go just quickly jump back. Let's go super fast mode. All right, I'm happy with that line. Next one is, I want  that arrow that kind of reaches around here. It's gonna show a few little extras  that the line tool can do.

Um, the other thing I'm gonna do is  show you a sweet shortcut. I'm  Gonna introduce it more and more in the course. It's the shortcut to rule them all. It's like the best shortcut ever. It is the forward slash key. Okay?

You've got two of them back slash leans back the forward  slash on my keyboard. It's tied in with the question mark. Okay? So the forward slash key,  and then you can just type in anything. I'm gonna type in line, what do I wanna do? Do I wanna change the line style  or do I want to add a line shape?

Click on this. The cool thing about  that is like this thing here is a little bit clumsy, right? You're like, all right, I need a line. All right. It's under elements. It's scroll, scroll, scroll.

Getting distracted by videos. Okay, where is it? Oh, it's under lines. No, it's under shapes. Is it under shapes? Oh, here it is.

So what I end up doing and  what you'll find really useful is keeping that closed  and just going, all right, document up here. I need a line. So I'm just gonna hit forward slash  just type in line, okay? And then go, there it is. And then I get a line. I'm gonna go forward slash again  and I'm gonna say I need a square.

Okay, well spell square, right? Okay. Okay, it's come under rectangle. Come on Dan. Rectangle. And I get a rectangle if I hit forward slash now it's gonna  type a forward slash I'm have to click off  or hit escape, hit forward slash and say I need a chicken.

I'm not sure why I need a chicken, but let's go chicken. Here we go. Got a dip dab. It's doing one of them. Um, so that shortcut is super handy for everything. Need a video of a chicken, dabbing,  dipping, whatever he's doing.

Okay? You can just hit forward slash and type it in. I use it all the time. It is super helpful. So down here, let's add another line. So we're gonna use our forward slash forward slash line.

Do I need a line chart? Nope, just the line. Okay. And what I'm gonna do is if you grab any of these ends,  you'll see it snaps the stuff. And the weird thing about lines, it's good and bad. This is weird and good at the same time,  which is if I put it to here, okay, it's kind  of attached to the end of this.

It kind of snapped the end of this text box,  which happens when I move the text box. Woo. So this is gonna be handy er,  when we get into like our presentations part of the course,  but we're doing lines, so let's learn about lines. Um, so yeah, it means  that you can snap them and attach them. And sometimes you're like, oh, that's super handy. A lot of the time you're like, what are you doing?

Why are you connected? Oh yeah,  Dan said it's a feature, not a bug. Okay, so I'm gonna grab this end  and go, all right, I'm gonna connect it maybe  where I'm gonna connect it or I'm gonna  just kind of snap it in there. And what you'll notice is it's connected to both sides now. Okay? If you like, stop it, all you do is click on it  and grab it and rake it off.

Or you can just click on the line,  hit delete on your keyboard, up to you how you want  to disconnected it. I like it. It's kind of cool and connected. Uh, let's dig in a bit more to line. So I am going to go into here. I always enter up in this double arrow.

You don't have to, you could use it up here  and say, all right, I want the end to be an arrow. Okay? And I want to grab the stroke,  drag it up a bit higher, okay? Now what I want to do is play around with this line type. Okay? We will go into this one  where Dan feels more comfortable and safe.

I'm gonna go to line type and I'm gonna go too curved. Okay? And it means that I can do this Z I'm probably gonna need  to actually, I want get mine snapped from not the edge  of the circle to this text box. Here it is still, is it connected to the text box? Probably not. Okay.

But it's okay. I want it pointed to the text  not snapping to the edge of this. And you drag this middle part, okay, around to how  Curve you uh, want it. I really want more control with handles that pop out. If you're an illustrator person,  you'll be like, gimme the handles. We don't have the handles here in uh, Canva.

It's kind of kept it simple, which is good. So I'm gonna do something like this. The other thing, I wanna do a little trick for lines. If I double click it, look at that. We can add text. So I'm gonna say merely here, exclamation mark.

Okay, look at all the text. I'm gonna go command shift  and use my less than to make it smaller. That's control shift, okay, less than,  and the cool thing about that, and that's gonna be better  and better with presentations when you're trying  to do flow charts and Gantt charts  and stuff, you see it's connected to the line,  which is super helpful. You can grab it as well and kind  of like jiggle it around a little bit. Not full control, but some control. Alright, I'm gonna change the color of my line.

I'm gonna go into here, I'm gonna go stroke color. I'm going to pick one of the colors. Actually, I have no idea. So I'm just gonna mix one,  grab the hue, slide it along, find something  that I think will work with my kind of yellowy,  mandarin and purple vibe. Okay? I'm gonna go something like this.

Oh, maybe I'm not, I don't know. All right. That'll do. All right. Same thing. You can kind  of format your text in here.

I'm gonna pick, let's go to the fonts that we're using  before it's coming soon. This one doesn't have a bold,  so I'm gonna make it a little bit bigger. Use my sweet shortcut. Alright, that's uh, everything to do  with lines a lot more than you thought, right? You're like, he's just gonna talk about lines. No, look, there's lots of cool stuff you can do for it  and a little kind of weirdness as well.

Last thing I wanna do is I want to,  I really like them having rounded ends. So I'm gonna go into here, okay, into my line type, okay. Or the stroke, sorry. And then go  and make it rounded for something  that nobody's gonna notice but me. And you see a little end there. It's got a little rounded cap.

Alright, that's it. Line's over. I'll see you in the next video.