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Click on the Shape button in the New Puzzle window to make one of these.
You can either select one of the shapes in the supplied grid library, like the one on the left, or click Design new shape to make your own. Use the Create vocabulary puzzle or Create word search feature to fill in the shape automatically with words from a short list. Alternatively you can edit the grid yourself. |
To design a shape yourself remove the grid lines from squares by pressing Ctrl+Delete or using Remove Blanks. You can select blocks of squares to remove by holding the left mouse button down, moving the mouse to select the squares you want to remove, and then pressing Ctrl+Delete.
Shape puzzles usually have a thick border, but you can change this under Grid Properties. You may like to change the colors of the grid lines or individual squares. To do this change the settings under Grid Properties or Square properties. If the puzzle shape you are making is symmetric you can change the grid symmetry setting appropriately.
See also:
Editing the grid
Creating a vocabulary puzzle
Creating a word search puzzle
Writing Clues
Grid Properties
Square properties.
Clue Properties