Re: Drawing Problem in Word 2003

Hi Suzanne,

I just got back from my evening class and saw your post. You are quite right
- I had not thought it totally through. I also forgot to tell the guy that he
needed to group the autoshape and ovelayed text box but if he followed the
tutorial page I mentioned he would have got there. In my defense, it is
probably because I almost never use the autoshapes as most of my work is
freeform. Hopefully, one day, I will catch up with the knowledge you guys
have and until then I suspect I can be confident in the fact that I will drop
some more clangers. The good thing about the forum is we can come back and
correct or clarify any mis-understandings.

Best regards

Keith

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Another point that Keith may have missed, judging from a previous post:
Keith, in a question about centering text vertically in AutoShapes, you
mentioned creating text boxes in front of the AutoShapes and dragging them
to the center. Though this may be the most efficient method in such cases,
the user who was asking the question had doubtless right-clicked on the
AutoShape and used the Add Text feature, which creates a text box inside the
AutoShape. This text box can be formatted to some extent (you can change the
internal margins, for example), but you can't change its size or shape. It
does, however, have the advantage of being firmly glued to the AutoShape so
that it moves with it (without the need for grouping).

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Words into Type
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"Bob Buckland ?:-)" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote
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Hi Keith,

I would think that your students are in for a good deal of fun in your
class. :)

From your excellent work at http://DrawingWithWord.com there aren't any
changes in Word 2003 that come immediately to mind that would prevent you
from creating and manipulating those graphics. You may, for ease of editing
for the class, have folks set the "Insert/Paste pictures as" choice in
Tools=>Options=>Edit to something other than 'inline with text'.

In going through your 'Drawing with Word' tutorial there are a couple of
places where the terminology you used to name Word drawing tools may be
something that is due to regional/locale settings (U.K. for yours), which
wouldn't matter in a local class :)

For example on the drawing toolbar, using Word 2003 with U.S. settings

You list Word Tool Tip
======== =============
Elipse tool Oval
Line density Line Style
Annulus shape Donut

(at other spots you did use the 'Word Tool Tip' title)

There are a few broken links on the web site, so you may want to walk each
page using the next and previous buttons. (One example under Drawing with
Word the 'next arrow' on 'Tutorial page 9' doesn't lead to a next page, but
to a '404 - page not found' error. (/500dw10.htm should be /500dwp10.htm)
and I'm looking forward to you having the 'download' page complete soon for
the original documents.

For Word 2003 some flexibility added allows WordArt, to now be text wrapped
as inline (with text) where in previous versions of Word WordArt could be
floated and anchored but not inline text wrapped.

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<<"Keith Howell" <KeithHowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:D3D635B8-3C79-4667-955C-7B44592B00C9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Mary,

This thread has left me worrying a bit. I use Word 2002 and have been asked
to run part of a summer school session (my bit being drawing with word) and
I
use overlaying a lot (take a look at the Health and Safety cartoons in the
art gallery at www.drawingwithword.com). Am I going to come unstuck if the
summer school is using 2003 on its pc's?. What are the differences in
drawing
features between 2002 and 2003?

Best regards >>
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

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