Drawing Tutorial for Word?

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Can anyone recommend a tutorial for using the Draw tools in Word--internet
or books?

Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
 
Anne said:
I have a bit of info here, Wayne:
http://www.officearticles.com/misc/drawing_tools_in_microsoft_office.htm
Perhaps I should make an "extreme tutorial" for Drawing Tools? Not a bad
idea. :)
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Hope it helps!
Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com
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Maybe I missed something, but one page is pretty thin. I would think someone
would have produced a fairly through examination of how order, grouping,
sizing, measurement, grids, rulers (if there are any) and the like work. I
have no book to go on, so I just figure it out on the fly. So far so good,
but there must be some organized primer on how this works. It would be
interesting to see some advanced example of what some people have done. I
suspect there are features I've missed. For example, someone mentioned use
of the ctrl (shift?) with the arc that will produce an arc from a circle
rather than some other way.


Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
 
In Anne Troy had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
See if this helps you, Wayne:
http://www.officearticles.com/tutorials/an_extreme_tutorial_in_drawing_tools_in_microsoft_office.htm
If not, try to be more specific about the kinds of things you're
looking for. (It may still need some organizing of the topics,
though!) ************
Hope it helps!
Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com
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Just some "in addition" stuff...

For Word in Office 2003:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\1033\WDMAIN11.CHM

Online:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/CH060832071033.aspx

The CHM isn't that good really but has some info? The site's not that much
better from what I've been looking at. For drawing, well, why are you using
Word? Have you checked into Expression (beta) from Microsoft yet?

You can see what the artists have been doing with it (I had extra bandwidth,
space, and no artistic talent of my own):

http://kgiii.info/gallery/

More info:
http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/graphic_designer/default.mspx

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Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

"We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind,
which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply
there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations." -
Sherlock Holmes
 
Galen said:
In Anne Troy had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
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.... snip
Just some "in addition" stuff...

For Word in Office 2003:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\1033\WDMAIN11.CHM

Online:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/CH060832071033.aspx

The CHM isn't that good really but has some info? The site's not that much
better from what I've been looking at. For drawing, well, why are you using
Word? Have you checked into Expression (beta) from Microsoft yet?

You can see what the artists have been doing with it (I had extra bandwidth,
space, and no artistic talent of my own):

http://kgiii.info/gallery/

More info:
http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/graphic_designer/default.mspx
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Using Word graphics because I'm writing a book with it, and the book needs
some figures.
Never heard of Expression. I'll check it out. The gallery of graphics at the
URL are impressive, but well beyond what I need. I don't want to be an
artist, just want to express technical ideas in figures.


Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
 
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