<p class="Paragraph">The <help:key-word value="Ellipse" tag="kw68211_1" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/><span class="T1">Ellipse</span> floating toolbar contains several icons for drawing sectors and <help:key-word value="segments" tag="kw68211_3" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>segments. Sectors look like "perfectly cut pieces of pie". Segments look like halves of a pie.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Drawing sectors of an ellipse or circle requires multiple steps, though the process functions intuitively:</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Open the <span class="T1">Ellipse</span> floating toolbar and click on the <span class="T1">Circle Pie</span> icon. The pointer changes to a cross-hair symbol accompanied by a small sector symbol.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Your first click defines the first corner of the delimiting rectangle which surrounds the circle. The delimiting rectangle will later be obvious via the eight handles seen when you select the circle. To draw the circle such that the first click defines the center, press the <help:switch select="System" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"><help:case select="MAC">Option</help:case><help:default>Alt</help:default></help:switch> key while dragging the mouse.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Release the mouse button when the circle has reached the desired size. Now you'll notice that a radius which follows the movement of the mouse is drawn in the circle.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Now when you move the mouse, you'll see that the first radius is set and a second radius follows the movement of the mouse. <text:s text:c="" xmlns:text="http://openoffice.org/2000/text"/>As soon as you click again, the circle pie is complete.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Drawing ellipse pies is done in a similar fashion. The dimensions of the delimiting rectangle, formed when you first drew the shape, determines the dimensions of the ellipse.</p>
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<p class="Paragraph">When drawing a segment, proceed in exactly the same manner as described above for sectors. The only difference is that in the last step no second radius follows the movement of the mouse, but rather a secant (straight line) cuts through the circle.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">With the other icons in the <span class="T1">Ellipse</span> floating toolbar, you can draw <help:key-word value="ellipses and arcs" tag="kw68211_2" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>ellipses and arcs. This process also functions as described above although, only the perimeter of the ellipse or the circle is drawn.</p>