Microsoft Office Word 2010 Graphics 2 Enable Live Preview Live Preview enables you to see the results of a formatting change before committing to the change. When you place the mouse pointer over a button, the page displays the results of clicking that button. To enable Live Preview, click the File tab, then click Options in the File menu. The checkbox to enable or disable Live Preview is in the General category.) Insert Shapes (rectangles, stars, flowchart symbols, arrows, lines, etc.) On the Insert Ribbon, click the Shapes button in the Illustrations group. A gallery of shapes appears (right). Click the desired shape. Press the left mouse button and drag at an angle on the page to draw shape the desired size, or click once to insert a standard-sized shape (approximately one inch). Working with Shapes Rotation Handle Resize Handle – maintains the original aspect ratio Resize Handle (change either height or width) Adjustment Handle – drag to distort shape In addition to corner, edge and rotation handles, some Shapes have adjustment handles, which are yellow and diamond-shaped. These control the shape of the shape, making its curves and angles more or less exaggerated. Adjust Formatting and effects (shadows and 3-D effects from the Drawing Tools Format Ribbon. Add text to a Shape by right-clicking it and choosing Add Text on the pop-up menu. Word will add a transparent text box on top of the Shape into which you may type. The Drawing Tools Format Ribbon Set a Default Format for Shapes To create several Shapes with the same formatting, create the first one and set its formatting, then right-click it and select Set as Default Shape from the pop-up menu. New Shapes in the current document will have matching formatting. Page 1 of 4 Microsoft Office Word 2010 Graphics 2 Insert a WordArt graphic (fancy lettering) 1. On the Insert Ribbon, click the WordArt button in the Text group. A gallery of style choices appears as a drop-down array. 2. Click a style from the gallery. A box appears, containing the phrase “Your text here” in the style you selected. Type your desired text [the box grows to accommodate it], and then click outside the box. Your text will appear in the style you selected. Working with WordArt Change the WordArt to a different preset style by selecting the text and choosing a new style from the style gallery in the WordArt Styles group on the Drawing Tools Format Ribbon. The Text Fill and Text Outline buttons to the right of the style gallery let you change the interior and outline colors of WordArt lettering. The Text Effects button lets you add features like shadows, reflections and 3-D illusions such as bevels. You can also shape the lettering into a circle, a wave or other shapes by choosing Transform at the bottom of the Text Effects menu. Modify letter spacing and line spacing as you would ordinary text, using the tools in the Font and Paragraph groups on the Home Ribbon. About Text Boxes Text Boxes are containers for text that can be positioned anywhere on the page. They are used for picture captions, as sidebars and pull-quotes in newsletters, and as placeholders in user-completed forms. [WordArt is a specialized kind of text box.] Page 2 of 4 Microsoft Office Word 2010 [Type a quote from the document or the summary of an interesting point. You can position the text box anywhere in the document. Use the Text Box Tools tab to change the formatting of the pull quote text box.] Graphics 2 Insert a Text Box On the Insert Ribbon, click the Text Box button in the Text group. A gallery of formatted text boxes appears; click one to choose it. Text boxes are created with standard placeholder text in them. Click the text to select it, and then type your own text. To insert a plain, unformatted text box, choose “Draw Text Box” at the bottom of the gallery. Plain text boxes are created without placeholder text. Click either of the dialog box launchers on the Drawing Tools Format Ribbon and choose Text Box from the list at the left. These tools let you control text wrapping and set the internal margins of the text box, increasing or decreasing the amount of empty space around the outside of the text box. About the Drawing Canvas The Drawing Canvas places a boundary around your drawing objects. Objects in the drawing canvas can easily be moved and resized as a single unit. This can be more flexible than repeatedly grouping and ungrouping several objects while creating a design. Insert a new Drawing Canvas Click where you want the new drawing canvas to be inserted. On the Insert Ribbon, click Shapes, and choose New Drawing Canvas from the bottom of the list. Working with the Drawing Canvas Format the Drawing Canvas using tools on the Drawing Tools Format Ribbon. (The drawing canvas shown has been given an outline so it can be seen; normally they are invisible and have no edge lines.) Page 3 of 4 Microsoft Office Word 2010 Graphics 2 About Connectors In the Drawing Canvas, some of the shapes in the Lines group behave as connectors: instead of being freely positioned anywhere on the canvas, connectors snap to certain points on the edges of existing shapes. Once connectors have snapped into place, their ends will remain anchored to those points even when the shapes are moved. Adding a Connector 1. Create two or more graphics and position them on a Drawing Canvas. 2. Insert a new Shape and choose one of the connector lines (circled above). 3. Move the mouse pointer close to either graphic; connection points will appear in red. 4. Drag the mouse from one connection point to another; the connector line will appear, capped with red dots at the ends. (Unconnected connector ends are capped with green dots.) Note: To stop a connector snapping to a connection point , hold the Alt key while drawing or moving it. Arranging multiple graphics Individual graphics behave as if they exist on separate transparent layers. When graphics overlap each other, the first one you created appears on the bottom of the stack, with more recent items on top.   To bring an item up one or more layers in the stack, select the graphic you are interested in and click the arrow beside the Bring Forward button in the Arrange group. Choose Bring Forward to move the graphic one layer upward, or Bring to Front to move it to the top of the stack. Similarly, to move items down in the stack, use the Send Backward button. To align graphics with respect to one another, select the graphics, then click the Align button in the Arrange group. Choose the desired alignment. To align the graphics relative to an element of the page itself, choose Align to Page, Align to Margin or Align to Canvas before selecting the desired alignment. Page 4 of 4