Drawing With Word Document


If you don’t have graphics images to insert into your documents, you can draw your own! Word supports drawing tools with which you can create the following:

• Lines

• Rectangles

• Polygons

• Curves

• Freeform art

• Arrows

• Flowcharts

• Callouts

• Stars and banners


Request a Drawing
Display your Insert ribbon. The Shapes group at the ribbon’s leftmost edge forms the shapes available to you in Word.

Display Additional Shapes
Click the down arrow next to the Shape group to see a list of more shapes available to you. Word updates the Recently Used Shapes section to include any recent shapes you might have drawn.

Create a New Drawing
With the Shape box opens, click to select New Drawing. Word defines a rectangular drawing area in your document where you can put shapes. You can drag any of the rectangular area’s corners or edges to shrink or expand the size of your drawing area.

Use the Scribble Tool to Draw Freeform
Click to select the Freeform shape. You can drag the Freeform drawing shape to any position. A line follows your movement, drawing as you drag your mouse. You can continue adding shapes in a like manner. The shapes don’t replace actual drawing, but they give you a foundation to make simple drawings.

Remove a Drawn Shape
If you decide you don’t want a shape you’ve created, simply click to select it and then press the Delete key. If you have drawings that overlap one another, determining exactly what is selected can be tricky; study the resizing handles as you click over the shapes to ensure that you’ve selected the item you want to delete.

Add Text to a Drawing
Callouts are often useful to add to a drawing. You can add callouts to text you want to highlight, perhaps to accent a discount paragraph in a sales letter. You can use a callout as a text balloon showing that someone on your drawing is speaking. For more traditional technical and business drawings, callouts are useful for labeling items. To add a callout, select a Callout shape tool, add the callout, and resize and move the callout so that it hovers exactly where you want it to land on your drawing. Click inside the callout and type whatever text you want to use for the callout. All the usual formatting tools work on the callout’s text, such as italic and boldface. If the callout is too large for the text you type, resize the callout box.

The Callout tool isn’t the only way to add text to your drawing. Click the Draw Text Box tool to draw a text box into which you can type text. The primary difference between a text box and a callout is that a callout has a line pointing to another item the text refers to. If you want to get really fancy, you can change the color of the text box from the Text Box Styles ribbon group that appears when you’ve added a text box. All the tools across the ribbon constantly update to reflect things you can do to whatever shape you’ve just placed or selected.