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Alright last tip in our look at Numbers here and this will also be the last tip in the tutorial at least for now and I'll talk more about that in the wrap up and author videos. But what made me think of this tip is spending a lot of time while creating these tutorials staring at the island of Hawaii and I started to think I wonder how they made that and the answer is they probably made it in a different type of graphics application because it's hard to duplicate within the iWork applications as you're about to see. But you can kind of approximate a shape like this by drawing a freehand shape and it's this last selection in your selection of shapes here. Now let's take a look at how it can start to work with this, let's just take a blank sheet here in this workbook that we've been dealing with and let's add a new shape and right there. So now just keep in mind that this is not a scribbling application in fact if I try to do it and then click somewhere else I already got a shape going here so I don't like that one so I'm going to press escape on my keyboard, it's selected, I should be able to hit delete and indeed I can and it goes away. So let's start again and we'll follow the exact instructions this time, just to draw a shape, click to create the first point, click in another location to create the next point. So let's try to make something approximating an island here and that's indeed what I'm trying to do, the more points you make, the more options you'll have later on, so there, something like that. I press escape the object is selected and we've got something that looks like, not much, like an albeit, sort of looks like an albeit. If I click on that shape again you can see all the points that I made and I can adjust those points, I just have to wait until my mouse changes into that little movement crosshair, the black air with the black cross beside it. So if I click and drag, now I can change the angle, I can even slide where that edit point is and I can also make curves if I want to. If I double click that very thing, you're seeing now, woop not yet, if I double click right on that I can add other points. So I can be a little bit more precise but what I was trying to show you here and I'll just press escape once again, is the ability to draw curves and make curves between two points. And again I'll show that, I'll click inside the shape, I'll click on that thing one more time or I'll double click on a different one and that's what I'm showing you. Now I get these little handles here that define a gentle curve in the midway point between that point and that point, so I could take all the jagged edges out of this if I wanted to, again the more points I create, the more tedious this is going to be but again if you really want to make a shape, you're bound and determine not to leave and get a graphics program for this type thing, Adobe Illustrator, something like that, be my guest, you can change the angle of the curve by dragging this little items right here and you can change how deep the curve is the more I stretch, kind of look like a fish or a mouse right there. So if I want the curve to go out there's the curve between there and there, same thing if I grab that one and pull it out, it's going to make a hump that way which also could effect, because again that's going to be the midpoint of the curve, so I can affect it this way and take it back and so on, so once again you get the idea. So that's how you can draw a freehand shape if you really are in a bind or not in a bind, but if you really want to create a freehand shape, you certainly have the ability to do so. If you combine that with the ability to save a template then maybe that hard work will pay off because you'll spend you know an hour or two defining shape once but then be able to reuse that shape in spreadsheet after spreadsheet.