Hi. I discoverted, much to my digust and dislike, that W--AAAA--Y too much
has been changed in Word graphics. I really hate the changes. The first
thing that I learned is the you abnsolutely have no choice whatsoever to do
anything with autoshapes unless you use the drawing canvas with it.; What I
do is the following:
1. I pull up a new word document just to use for graphics for the finished
document on which I'm working.
2. Hit ENTER until you're at least half way down the page, and then go into
the INSERT tab where the autoshapes are. This is where the programming for
this got really anal retentive. Now go into the SHAPES portions and find New
Drawing Canvas at the bottom. insert a new drawing canvas below where you
have hit enter down to the middle of the page.
3. Now go back and click on the round rectangle [or any autoshape] that you
want.
4. Go to your blank document ABOVE the drawing canvas and insert the
autoshape OUTSIDE of the drawing canvas. If you don't do it this way, it
won't work.
3. Now, after you have inserted the rounded edge, or any autoshape, into the
document, right click on the shape and click on CUT. Don't use COPY because
it just won't work that way.
4. After you have clicked CUT on the rectangle [any shape], you can PASTE
it into the new drawing canvas and do whateer your little heart desires. \
5. The thing that you have to remember about the drawing canvas, cursed
thing that it is, and which I never used to use for good reason, is that
whatever goes into the drawing canvas first, is overlapped by whatever comes
after it. So if you cut and past a circle into the drawing canvas, then do
the same with another autoshape, the last shape will always be able to cover
the previous shape. Thankfully, this is easy to fix by just cutting and
copying the first shape while you're in the drawing canvas, then cutting the
original autoshape.
You'll also have to put your picture into the drawing canvas FIRST if you
want the rectangle shape to give your picture that rounded edge. Then you
can color your rectangle any which way you like.
At the end, you select each shape or picture that you want in your final
work, align them with the aligning tool in the ARRANGE box of the LAYOUT tab.
After you've aligned them and selected them, you can simply GROUP them by
touching the group icon under the ALIGN icon in the exact same section.
It's a pain in the gluteus maximus, and I hate them for doing this but we're
all stuck with whatever happens when they have their major brain belches, and
this is the MOST MAIN BRAIN BELCH I've ever seen in Microsoft. Can you
imagine if this was Soviet Russia? It would have been called "The People's
New Soviet Word Processing Belch".
Hope this helps. I had no warning, when I got back to school, that
everything had been switched to Windows Vista Premium and Microsoft 2007. I
had to go out and buy two new laptops [not provided to me - I work for a
non-profit organization] and learn this system in a matter of weeks. Well, I
didn't. It took me about six weeks to feel proficient enough for my
standards. And I'm too arrogant to attend a class., I teach all high school
subjects to learning disabled high school students, and had one heck of a
shock when I got hit in the face with THIS! However, I have been able to
make it possible for my students to navigate this latest horror that
Microsoft has perpetrated and to do so successfully. One thing is different
though. I used to teach my students how to use the HELP feature, break down
what they were being told into little pieces that they could understand, and
successfully get HELP from the help feature. That is gone and what Microsoft
put in place of it just stinks. Someone should smack them upside the head
for this.
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