Standard | Formatting | Drawing | Customize
Feb 09, 2017 Looked some more, and apparently there is no freehand drawing tools in Word for Mac 2016. Otherwise, you would see a Drawing tab (which has replaced the Ink tab now in Office). But, I do see some. Click the Table button on the Insert tab and choose Draw Table from the menu that appears. The app comes with all the tools available in Paint, such as the brush tool, pencil, and a number of selection tools. However, Pixelmator also brings a number of other, useful tools. Tools like the sponge tool, warp tool, blur and sharpen tools, along with a pen, and a freeform pen tool. There are a lot of other tools, as well, and one that I. Actually, adding a flowchart within a Microsoft Office program is as simple as adding a few shapes. We will use Microsoft PowerPoint 2011 for Mac in this example but you could really be using Word or Excel versions of Office 2011 to do the same task. In Word for the web you can see WordArt that’s already in your document, but to add more WordArt you need to open or edit the doc in the desktop version of Word. You can use the Font features on the Home tab to change the font color and size, and apply bolding, italics, or underlines to your text.
The Drawing toolbar
Learn about each of the the Microsoft Word Drawing Toolbar Icons. There is a practice quiz to test your learning.This entire toolbar could become a floating window by double-clicking on the control bar at the far left end of this toolbar. That gives the following window, which can be placed anywhere on the screen:
This toolbar can be restored to its original position by clicking in the gray bar at the top and dragging it back to the top of the screen. Push the top of the window up to the bottom of the menu bar.
| Function of commonly used buttons | |||
A pull down menu with several | Changes the pointer to a selection arrow | ||
Rotates the selected object to any degree | A pull down menu with several libraries of shapes | ||
Draws a line where you click and drag. Hold the Shift key down to make the line straight | Inserts a line with an arrowhead where you click and drag | ||
Draws a rectangle where you click and drag. Hold down Shift to draw a square | Draws an oval where you click and drag. Hold down Shift to draw a circle | ||
Draws a text box where you click and drag | Create text effects with Word Art | ||
Add, modify, or remove fill color from a selected object | Add, modify, or remove line color | ||
Formats the selected text with the color you click | Changes the thickness of lines | ||
Selects dash style for dashed lines | Select arrow style; placement and shape of arrowhead | ||
A pull down menu offers shadow choices | Add 3-d effects to rectangles or ovals | ||
Carefully review the function of each of the buttons above. When you think that you are familiar with each of the buttons take the short quiz below. (The Drawing toolbar has been included as a reference)
This quiz is available on a page without the table above Drawing Tool In Microsoft Word For Mac 2020
| 1 | Instead of striking the underline key fifteen times, you plan to draw a single line by clicking and dragging. |
| 2 | You have drawn a line, and now want to change the color of the selected line. |
| 3 | The last line you drew had an arrowhead at the wrong end. You want to change the arrowhead to the other end of the line. |
| 4 | You created an object in a document and you want to tilt it at an angle. |
| 5 | You have drawn a rectangle around a section of a flyer and want to change it to a dashed line. |
| 6 | The heading of a flyer is just plain text and you would rather create special effects with text. |
| 7 | You are going to draw a perfect circle on your document by holding down the shift key, clicking and dragging. |
Other toolbars