Hi,
This is probably very simple, but I have a Word Document with a screen shot
in the middle of the page. On that screen shot, there is a field I want to
circle in red. I am utterly lost in trying to do this. When I draw an oval
around it, the field is whited out. Help. Thanks Eden 397

You need to unfill the circle with the no-fill option in the paint bucket

"Eden397" wrote:

> Hi,
> This is probably very simple, but I have a Word Document with a screen shot
> in the middle of the page. On that screen shot, there is a field I want to
> circle in red. I am utterly lost in trying to do this. When I draw an oval
> around it, the field is whited out. Help. Thanks Eden 397

Eden397 wrote:
> Hi,
> This is probably very simple, but I have a Word Document with a
> screen shot in the middle of the page. On that screen shot, there is
> a field I want to circle in red. I am utterly lost in trying to do
> this. When I draw an oval around it, the field is whited out. Help.
> Thanks Eden 397

The out-of-the-box default for drawing shapes is an opaque white fill. What
you want is "no fill", which is not the same. After drawing the oval, click
the down arrow of the Fill button on the Drawing toolbar and select "No
Fill". You can also click the down arrow of the Line Color button and choose
red.

When you have it the way you want it, right-click the oval and click "Set
AutoShape Defaults" to keep the same settings for all shapes you draw later
in the same document. Unfortunately, the settings don't automatically carry
over from one document to the next; to do that, you must open the template
itself and set the AutoShape defaults there, and then they'll be the
defaults for all documents based on that template.

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I would recommend checking out SnagIt for screenshots and related graphics.
http://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.asp

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"Eden397" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> This is probably very simple, but I have a Word Document with a screen
> shot
> in the middle of the page. On that screen shot, there is a field I want
> to
> circle in red. I am utterly lost in trying to do this. When I draw an
> oval
> around it, the field is whited out. Help. Thanks Eden 397