: Illustrator - my rectangles are all sheared skewed? When I try to create a rectangle in a certain .ai file they all come out sheared: but this isn't the case in other projects. Is there

@BetL875

If you hold shift and press keys 1, 2 or 3 while drawing a shape it will shift the anchor points of your curser and will make the shapes appear sheared as you place them. Holding shift and pressing the 4 key while drawing the shape will revert it... Or it should anyway

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@Correia448

I moved everything to a new document and this resolved the issue. Still super mysterious. I am planning to buy some garlic in case it was ghosts.

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@Annie732

I almost 100% sure your question is a duplicate.
Anyway, check the prefs -





Otherwise disable the Perspective tool by clicking on its "x" in the Left-top corner.

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