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Drawing On The Drawing Layer(S) Word 2003Added on:8/28/2008 10:51:53 PM
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Word doesn’t let you draw inside the document itself. You can’t mix garish red scribbles with the perfectly formatted 11-point Garamond text on your resume. But you can draw on top of your resume, just like your three-year-old. You use the drawing layer like this:
- Open a Word document. If you have a resume handy, it’ll do.
- If you can’t see the Drawing toolbar at the bottom (it starts with a button that reads Draw), right-click an empty spot on the menu bar and select the Drawing check box.
- You have to get rid of a particularly obnoxious Word setting before you can scribble on your resume, so choose Tools?Options?General and clear the Automatically Create Drawing Canvas When Inserting AutoShapes check box; then click OK. See the upcoming sidebar, “Word’s Ignominious Drawing Canvas.”
- On the Drawing toolbar, choose AutoShapes? Lines and pick the Scribble drawing tool in the lower-right corner of the submenu. If you aren’t already in Print Layout view, Word switches over to it. (Otherwise, you wouldn’t be able to see what you’re scribbling!) Choose the Scribble drawing tool.
- Scribble. Really. Pretend you’re a three-year-old, hold down the left mouse button, and draw loopy scribbles all over the document. When you’re done, release the left mouse button.
- With the Scribble tool still selected , click the down-arrow next to the Line Color icon on the Drawing toolbar (it looks like a fountain pen) and choose a bright red. Of course. You could see it coming, couldn’t you?
- Click the Line Style tool on the Drawing toolbar (a stack of three solid lines) and choose one of the big, thick lines. If you did everything right, you should see a giant red scribble all over your resume. Of course, the scribble isn’t in your document at all. Rather, it’s sitting in the drawing layer on top of your document. That’s why you can click the scribble itself and drag it any place you like — it moves around in the drawing layer, out of harm’s way.
- To see what’s happening, choose View? Normal.
- Print the document (File?Print) or just take a look in Print Preview (File?Print Preview).
- If you’re in Print Preview, click Close.
- Go back into Print Layout view by choosing View?Print Layout. You see the document with the scribble on top.
- Click once on the scribble to select it; then right-click the scribble and choose Order? Send Behind Text.
- Choose File?Close — and no, you don’t want to save changes.
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