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.

To open the Drawing toolbar, click on the Drawing button on the Standard toolbar.

•Item 1: The Draw drop-down menu lets you group objects, change the way that objects overlap, add a grid, align objects, and more.

•Item 2: Select Objects: releases your cursor and changes to the arrow that you need to use to select and work with the next object.

•Item 3: The AutoShape feature allows you to draw a shape with a couple of clicks. Click on the AutoShape button to 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.

The following is a quick reference for the Drawing toolbar buttons. I will go into details on specific items later in the lesson.

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Drawing tools

•Item 4: Use the Line button to quickly draw a straight line. Click the Line button, then click and drag to draw a line.

•Item 5: The Arrow button works just like the Line button, but puts an arrow at the end of the line where you finished drawing.

•Item 6: The Rectangle button lets you draw rectangular or square shapes quickly. Click the Rectangle button, then click and drag to draw a rectangle.

•Item 7: The Oval button works just like the Rectangle button. Hold down the Shift key while drawing to get a perfect circle.

•Item 8: This button inserts a text box.

•Item 9: Click this button to insert a WordArt object. WordArt is a lot of fun and can be very useful to create logos and titles.

•Item 10: Click this button to insert one of several available diagrams (Venn, pyramid, etc)

•Item 11: Click the Insert Clip Art button to incorporate clip art into your drawing.

•Item 12: Opens your “pictures” folder to allow you to insert a photo.

•Item 13: The Fill Color button lets you fill an object with a selected color. Click the down arrow to change the fill color. To fill an object, select it, and then click the Fill Color button.

•Item 14: The Line Color button works like the Fill Color button, but changes the color of the lines in an object.

•Item 15: The Font Color button changes the color of text incorporated into your drawing. It works like the Line and Fill Color buttons.

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•Item 16: The Line Style button lets you change the width of the lines in your drawing, or even draw in multiple lines. You can select a line style before drawing an object, or you can select an object and the click the button to change the line style for that object.

•Item 17: The Dash Style button works just like the Line Style button, but lets you draw objects using dashed or dotted lines.

•Item 18: The Arrow Style button works with the Line and Arrow buttons to add or change the direction or style of arrows on lines. Click the button and then draw the line, or select the line and then click the button to change the arrow style.

•Item 19: The Shadow button adds a shadow to the selected object. Select an object, then click the Shadow button to select from several shadow styles. Click Shadow Settings to change the color of the shadow or nudge it in relation to the object.

•Item 20: The 3-D feature changes your shapes into three-dimensional objects. Draw your shape, select it, and then click on the 3-D button to select the desired 3-D effect. Click 3-D Settings to change the color scheme in your 3-D object as well as the direction, rotation, lighting, perspective, depth, etc., of the object. Figure 2-3 shows the 3-D button and some of the 3-D effects you can choose from.

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The Drawing Canvas

When you create a drawing, a drawing canvas is placed around it. 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.

The drawing canvas is new to Office 2003. If you prefer to create drawings without the canvas using the “grouping: method, you can temporarily remove the canvas by clicking “escape” when it appears.

If you want to change the default so that it does not appear each time, you can disable it in the options dialog box.

Word provides many ready-made shapes, called AutoShapes, that you can add to your document.

On the drawing toolbar, choose AutoShapes. Choose the type of shape you want to add, and click on it. The drawing canvas will appear. Do not worry if it upsets the text around it. Your cursor will turn into a crosshair symbol. Inside the canvas space, click and drag the shape to the size you want, and release the mouse.

AutoShapes

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 drawing

Rotate

Format your AutoShape

On the Colors and Lines section of this dialog box, you can experiment with fill and line colors and styles.

Change the color of the shape

Change the color of the outline

Change the thickness of the outline

Change the line style of the outline

You can add text to your AutoShape

Make Your Auto 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 toolbar. Experiment! You will find many uses for it as you create new documents in Word.

Shadow 3 - DBasic shape

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 shift 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

Like most Word features, WordArt can be accessed in a number of ways.

From the Insert menuInsert Picture WordArt

From this icon on the drawing toolbar

The gallery gives you shape options

Right clicking on your Word Art gives you formatting options

Click on the shape of your choice

Next enter your text

Word’s Clip Art

From the INSERT Menu

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

Cropping Images

Right click on the image and choose to show the picture toolbar

When 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.

Image Brightness and Contrast

Less brightness

More brightnessLess contrast

More contrast

Brightness

Contrast

Grayscale and Watermarkautomatic Grayscale

Black & White Washout

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

Add a Text BoxWorking With Text Boxes

Certain kinds of information are best displayed using text boxes. If you create newsletters, flyers, reports, announcements, school projects, or other types of publications, you may want to use Word's text box feature.

Text boxes can be freely moved around your document without moving other elements. They are great for extra important information.

To Create a Text Box:

•Choose Insert Text Box.

•The drawing canvas will open (you can tap escape to close it if you want to)

•Place your insertion point where you want your text box.

•Left click and the mouse pointer becomes a crosshair .

•Drag the text box until it is the appropriate size. Release the left mouse button when ready.

To Insert Text into the Text Box:

•Click once inside the text box.

•The box is selected and a blinking insertion point appears inside the box.

•Begin typing.

•Format text (change font, font size, style, etc) in the usual manner. (Select text first, make changes later.)

You can move and resize a text box the same way as any other graphic.