Resetting rectangle tool to straight lines

The rectangle tool suddenly started to default to producing curved lines. Seems to default to about a 9% roundness for some reason. would like to know how to reset to it's defaults i.e. I want straight lines again.

That's peculiar. Mine defaults to 0% for every new shape, no matter what the previous shape's setting.
Have you tried quitting the application and/or shutting down and restarting your computer? If that doesn't work, then you might consider deleting your cache and/or preferences. On a Mac, these can be found at user/Library/Preferences/Adobe Fireworks CS6.
http://helpx.adobe.com/fireworks/kb/restore-preferences-fireworks-cs5.html

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SANJISH wrote:
> Hi,
> I have just started using Fireworks and am unable to
close a figure
> made up of curves using pen tool and line segments using
pen / line tools. How
> do I plot points on any given shape and close it so that
i can colour the shape
> . Right now I am not able to give colour to the shapes I
have created.
>
> Please help
>
> Regards
>
> Sanjish
>
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I just need to figure what else I reset because I hit reset all.
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Thanks for your reply.
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Trevor Dennis wrote:
Bulbabooty wrote:
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