How can I get rid of that annoying Word "Drawing
Canvas" (when I add a text box)?
In Word 2002 and 2003, when you go to add a textbox (or
word art, or something like that) to a document, this giant "drawing
canvas" shows up and you are actually adding the stuff to the canvas
(you can shrink/resize the canvas, but it does NOT float over the text -
it embeds itself). You could always just drag your item off that canvas to
another part of the page, and then click on the canvas and delete it ..
but that's a pain! Let's just have Word NOT create the darn canvas in the
firs place!
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A) Here is what the drawing canvas would look like,
I clicked on a textbox to add it to my page. Yuck! |
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B) Go to the TOOLS menu in Word - then select the
OPTIONS choice at the bottom. |
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C) On the GENERAL tab, uncheck the "Automatically
create drawing canvas with inserting AutoShapes" box!!
[This is a completely different topic, but while
you are on this dialog .. you might as well bump up the "Recently
used files list" to 9 .. then you 9 most recent files will be at
the bottom of the File menu. *I* always like to see more of those on
the list - if you don't, don't set it.] |
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