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Following on from the previous movie we're going to continue and look at the options available in the Pathfinder Panel here. Now remember these options are available in the Object Menu and some of them are available elsewhere as well, but we're just going to go through these pretty quickly because they're very straightforward. You've got an option here to Convert Shape, so when you select an object like this you can convert it to Rounded Corners. Now notice we've changed it up here and we have already seen how to do that so I can change it back here, or we can go to the corners where they're squared off, the Inverse Corners, or what we can do here is create an Ellipse. Now, you can't create an ellipse from up here, it becomes a different shape. Basically it becomes one of these Ellipse Frame Tools so it would be like drawing it from there and we can just select it and we can always go back to the square like that. We can also go to a triangle, like that. Back to the square and we can go to the Polygon Tool. Now it will change to whatever the current polygon settings are, so let me just go back to this one. I'll click away and I can go over to Polygon Frame Tool, double-click on it and here we can set the number of sides, maybe to something like 20 and the Star Inset to 5, OK, so now if I select this frame here and choose Change to Polygon it takes on the current settings. I'll undo that, come over here and here we can convert it to a line, like that. And here it converts it to a vertical or horizontal line. Now let me just go back to the square before I do this, because this one is a little different. If I select this option here and then try and convert it back to a rectangle it won't let me do it. It says Cannot convert to another shape, it would be too small. So I can get around that by hitting Undo, Ctrl- or Cmd-Z like that. So with any of these ones here you can always convert it to one of the other shapes but with this one where you convert it to a vertical or horizontal line you can't go back unless you can catch it and do it with the Undo button. So, that's that. And, as I said, a lot of these are available through this menu here, but some of them aren't, like converting it to a triangle or a polygon, or the lines, of course. So let me delete this and we'll move on to the options with the Paths here. I'm going to select the Pen Tool here and I'm just going to draw a little basic shape like this. It's not supposed to be anything. Leave it like that, and there we have the line. I can select it and here's an option, we can close the Path there. We close the Path and converse to that is opening the Path, like that. Now when you do that you can't really see anything that's open but if I kind of zoom in a little bit more, especially around the area where I know it is, you can see that there is actually a double one where they're on top of each other like that and that's where it is. So I'll zoom out again and here is Join Path so it connects to Endpoints, so if I select these two endpoints here and join them, there we end up with a joined Path. Notice that it kept the two points but just added a different Path in between them. So let me select all these, delete them and I'm just going to draw a bit of a curve, like this, and we'll look at the last option up in the top of the Paths. I'm going to come across to my Stroke and I'm going to make it a little thick so that we can really see it here and I'm going to give it a Start, Square, the end, an Arrow like that - oh, accidentally moved it there. That's OK. We can leave it like this. Get my Selection Tool, come over, reverse the Path like that and it just reverses it. So let me just take these little things off this and we'll look at the one last option and let me just close out this dialog box here and we have the Convert Point. Now we've already seen this and done it and it's through the Direct Select Tool, if you recall, we were able to convert these by coming down here and choosing the Convert direction. I'll be real honest, when I started doing this tutorial I came into the Pathfinder to check it out and saw these there. I didn't know they existed here. It's something they've added in InDesign CS5 and I'm not sure why they did it, but that's fine. They're here so we can come in with our Direct Select Tool here and select it and we can convert these points, Independent Direction Lines, that means if I move this one the one on the other side doesn't move. We can do this one. Changes it to be a continuous curve. That means the Direction Lines will have converse effect. When you move one it'll have an equal effect on the other side to keep the lines smooth. We can make it so that there is no change in the curve like that, it kind of becomes a straight line or a corner. I'll undo that one. And the last one here is it makes it symmetrical. So that's exactly the same on both sides as we move it, as opposed to this option here which you can make one a lot, lot longer without having the same effect on the other one but it does keep it smooth. So, as I said, you can access these options using the Convert Direction Point and the Direct Select Tool, but they've now put them in the Pathfinder box here if you want to access them there.