Drawing arc of circle

[Paul Goddard]

I can't find a simple way of drawing the arc of a circle in Word 2000. I
know I can cover part of a circle, but I want to draw a complete circle
with a portion of the circumference in a different colour. I know I
could draw two circles of different colours and then use an
image-editing tool to cut the two up and then stick them back together,
but is there a simpler way of doing this using just the drawing tools in
Word. The document already contains a number of circles all of the same
size and if I use another tool to produce this circle with a coloured
arc, it will take some time to get this circle to be of exactly the same
size and line width as the others in the document.

So my question in one sentence is: how can I use the drawing tools in
word to draw a circle with a portion of the circumference in a different
colour?

Any help would be appreciated.

Paul

 

[Paul Goddard]

I can't find a simple way of drawing the arc of a circle in Word 2000. I
know I can cover part of a circle, but I want to draw a complete circle
with a portion of the circumference in a different colour. I know I
could draw two circles of different colours and then use an
image-editing tool to cut the two up and then stick them back together,
but is there a simpler way of doing this using just the drawing tools in
Word. The document already contains a number of circles all of the same
size and if I use another tool to produce this circle with a coloured
arc, it will take some time to get this circle to be of exactly the same
size and line width as the others in the document.

So my question in one sentence is: how can I use the drawing tools in
word to draw a circle with a portion of the circumference in a different
colour?

I've now worked out how to do it, at least for a 90 degree arc. Almost
three years of using Word and some googling, and I've now found the Arc
button. The Office Agent wasn't much help!

Paul

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Amazing how those tools hide in plain sight, isn't it?

 

[Paul Goddard]

Amazing how those tools hide in plain sight, isn't it?

I'm not sure if that's sarcasm or what. But if you could tell me how to
draw an arc of other than 90 degrees, you might actually deserve your MVP.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

From your post, I thought you had found what you wanted. And indeed all the
AutoShapes *are* in plain sight, but specific ones are easy to overlook (I
know that I was really disgusted to discover the Arc shape *after* I had
gone to a lot of trouble to create something not quite satisfactory using
the Block Arc). When you draw the arc, it has yellow diamonds at both ends.
Drag either of these to reduce or extend the arc.