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!

A) Here is what the drawing canvas would look like, I clicked on a textbox to add it to my page. Yuck!

B) Go to the TOOLS menu in Word - then select the OPTIONS choice at the bottom.

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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