Word includes its own drawing program. While this program is not as powerful as most graphics programs on the market, it will enable you to create simple graphics without leaving your Word document.

• Item 1: The Insert Shape feature allows you to draw a shape with a couple of clicks. Select from an extensive list of pre-defined shapes. Select the shape you desire, then click and drag in your document where you want to put the shape.

• Item 2: Edit a free form shape / insert a text box

• Item 3: Add a style to your shape

• Item 4: Edit the fill color, line color, change the shape to another

• Item 5: Add shadows to your shape

• Item 6: Make your shape look 3 dimensional

• Item 7: Auto position your shape on the page

• Item 8: Position your shapes in relation to each other

• Item 9: Align rotate or flip your shape

• Item 10: Specify exact shape dimensions

The following is a quick reference for the Drawing toolbar buttons.

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Drawing tools

This is the best place to begin your drawing, Word provides many ready-made shapes, called AutoShapes, that you can add to your document. When you select a shape, the drawing tools ribbon will appear.

Insert Shapes

Select the shape you desire, then click and drag in your document where

you want to put the shape.

You can choose the freeform tools

and use your stylus to draw

free-hand.

You can change the size by dragging one of the handles at the edges of your

shape.

To move the shape, place your cursor over it. When the cursor changes to a crosshair symbol,

click and drag.

When you move your mouse over the handle, it looks like this – now drag the drawing around

Manipulate your shape

Rotate

Format your Shape

Apply a style

Create a shape

Or change the fill

and line colors

Add text to your shape

Make Your Shape 3D

Make your shapes more interesting by giving them a shadow or a 3-D format.

The best way to learn the graphic variations available in Word is to have lots of fun with the Drawing tools. Experiment! You will find many uses for it as you create new documents in Word.

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GroupingOften times you use more than one shape or graphic to form an image or logo. Word lets you “GROUP” the components so that you don’t have to move each one separately when you need to reposition.

3 Shapes 3 shapes arranged

Once the shapes are arranged the way you want them, select one, then select the other components by holding down the control key and clicking until they are all selected. Carefully right click in the center of one of the selected components and choose “GROUP”

Now all three work as one and the entire image can be moved or resized.

Layering Graphics

You may want to put one shape in front or behind the other. The default is that the image created last is on the top. Word lets you change that by changing the “ORDER”

This step has to be done before components are “grouped”

Right click on the heart1

Now the heart is in front of the arrow.

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Click “Bring to Front”2

The Drawing Canvas

When you create a drawing, you can choose to use a drawing canvas. The drawing canvas is an area on which you can draw multiple shapes. Because the shapes are contained within the drawing

canvas, they can be moved or resized as a single unit.

To use the drawing canvas click here before you add any shapes

On the INSERT tab in the TEXT group

The gallery gives you shape options

Click on the shape of your choice

Next enter your text

Special Word Art Ribbon appears

Word’s Clip Art

INSERT tab – Illustrations group

Search for your topic

To insert one of these in your document, place your cursor where your

want to insert it and then click on the

picture.

This opens the task pane which connects

to Word’s clipart gallery on the web

Inserting Pictures from the Web or a File

 

One way to insert an image into a Word document is to paste it in. To do this, begin by opening the file that contains the picture you want to use. Right click on the picture. Choose Copy to copy the picture to the Clipboard. Now switch to the Word document in which you want to paste the picture.

You can also use the Insert menu to insert a picture from a file on disk. Begin by positioning the insertion point where you want the picture to appear. Then choose Insert Picture From File to display the Insert Picture dialog box. Use the dialog box to locate and select the picture file you want to insert.

When you click the Insert button, the picture appears at the insertion point.

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Changing the Size of an Image

When you select an image in your document, 8 handles appear.

You can resize the image and keep the proportions by using the corner handles to resize.

You can make the image wider or longer by using the handles in the center of the tops or sides, but this will stretch the image.

handle

The special picture tools ribbon appears when you need it

Check out the picture styles!

Image Brightness and Contrast and color

Brightness

Contrastrecolor

Cropping Images

click on the cropping toolWhen you choose the cropping tool, your cursor becomes the tool. Place it over one of the “handles” and drag in to remove unwanted edges of the image.

Cropping removes the outside edges of an image to eliminate excessive or irrelevant background content of a photo.

When you insert a graphic, Word puts it at the position of the cursor, sitting on the base of the current line. Sometimes, you want more control over the position of a graphic in your document. You may want text to run to the edges of the graphic, flow around the graphic, or even run on top of the graphic.

Select the image that best represents the way you want the graphic formatted in relation to your text. Try different effects to see how you like them. You can change your selection by clicking in the alternative boxes.

Wrap Text Around a Graphic

If you find that you can not move a graphic where you want to, it is probably set as “in line with text”.

Try selecting “in front of text” and it will move where ever you need it.