Adobe Illustrator CC Classroom in a Book (2019 Release), First Edition

5. Choose Select > Deselect and then choose File > Save.

Aligning anchor points

Next you’ll align two anchor points to each other using the Align options. Like setting a key

object in the previous section, you can also set a key anchor point that other anchor points will

align to.

1. 
   

   Select the Direct Selection tool ( ), and click in the orange shape at the bottom of the current
   artboard to see all of the anchor points.

   
   


2. 
   

   Click the lower-right corner point of the shape. Press the Shift key and click to select the
   lower-left point of the same shape to select both anchor points (see the second part of the
   following figure).

   
   

The last selected anchor point is the key anchor point. Other points will align to this point.

Note

Currently, dragging across anchor points will not set a key anchor point.

3. Click the Vertical Align Top button ( ) in the Properties panel to the right of the document.
   The first anchor point selected aligns to the second anchor point selected.