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The Scissors Tool in Adobe InDesign

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Cut Straight Across a Shape with the Scissors Tool
InDesign Scissors Cut

Use Scissors Tool to cut across a shape

Image by E. Bruno
The Scissors tool can be used to split paths, shapes and frames and to reshape them.

Look at the illustration. That used to be one square which I then cut with the Scissors tool. This is how I did it: First I selected the Scissors tool. Then I clicked on one side of the square, right on the stroke, than I clicked on the other side of the square. That gave me the result you see in this picture (I moved the upper part of the square away from the lower part so that you could see the cut better.)

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