How to scale in one dimension only?

fredericklim

I though this should be easy but I cannot figure out how to do it.

Tom Foster

I was told, here, just the other day - select the object(s) and you can alter x and y scale in Properties panel.

Anthony Apostolaros

And sometimes it's useful to scale a whole set of entities in one dimension by making a block out of them and then changing the x and y scale of the block insertion in the Properties panel. It works for attached images too.