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

The drawing tools is one of those toolsets that only appears when you need it. To see this toolbar you must click on a shape that you created from the insert menu.

•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: Turn text into Word Art• Item 6: Adjust and align your text• 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

Format your Shape

Apply a style

Create a shape

Or change the fill and line colors

Add text to your shape

Grouping

Often 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

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

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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.