Help me about Illustrator CS3

anyone can help me to put the definition of this :
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/196/519573598_11f4a6397f_o.jpg
for example;
Zoom Tools- The Zoom tool allows us to enlarge or reduce the view of artwork we are viewing or when we want to edit everything in detail.
i hope you help me all of the content on that images that i gave*
sorry for my English..

Oh this puzzled me as well until I started to ask them precisely what they meant and realize they want use to help the give a verbal definition of each of the tool sets as in their example.
For instance:
Pen Tool:
The Pen Tool is used to create paths of both straight or curved geometry by creating anchor points which the paths connect as segments, either opened or closed paths which can be stroked or filled. The Pen tools also include a pen to add anchor points to the path and one to remove anchor points and a tool to convert anchor points which redirects the nature of the anchor points from a corner anchor point to a curved anchor point.
Line tool:
is a tool to create a straight path by dragging the tool, it creates two end points and can only be used to create straight open paths.
Arc Tool
does the same thing as the line tool but only creates arcs that are open paths with two end points
Spiral Tool
The spiral is used to create spiral paths that are opened paths that is one continuous path
The Grid Tools
The Rectangle Grid Tool is used to create a grid of open straight paths of various number of divisions as the user defines the number through a dialog and then drags or enters the dimensions to make it the desired overall size.
The Polar Grid does the same as the Rectangle Grid tool but it is a Circular Polar geometry.The concentric circular paths are closed and the divisions are open paths.
This is what they are looking for they must be instructing a course in Illustrator or writing a book.
I think that Erikku Yuki can obtain this information from the help files.

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