Purpose of the Drawing Canvas

[XP]

Using Office 2003 and Windows XP;

I just recently discovered that you can turn off the drawing canvas (thru
this news group - thanks); I prefer to draw without it, but that leads me to
a rather obvious quesion: What is the purpose of it? If you don't need
it...why use it at all?

Is there any advantage other than perhaps constraining the area that your
drawing can consume? Is that its main/only purpose?

FYI, I'm doing free style drawings that are not constrained to an area of
the page, but may consume a small part or even the entire page. There is no
text sharing space on the page.

Thanks much for your comments and clarifications.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I believe that it and all its contents are scalable.

 

[XP]

Hi Suzanne,

Yes, I see that; actually that could be very useful to me if I want to fit
something on a smaller (or bigger) page size. Nice. Perhaps I will continue
to use it...

Do you happen to know if there is a way to ADD the canvas to a document with
existing drawing objects so that they will encapsulated into the canvas?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You might try selecting all the objects, cutting or copying them, and then
pasting them into a canvas.