drawing an arrowed line HELL

[seanseaghan]

I have a word.doc with a couple of screen shots pasted-in. I want to
draw an arrowed line from a sentence below the screen shot to an area
within the screen shot.

Every time I try to do this, or insert a text box in the screen shot, a
large"create your drawing here" box with a gray border appears. I do
not want this. I just want to draw the arrowed line from the sentence
to an area within the screen shot and that's all.

Not only have I done this before, I have a file to prove it. It was not
a big, frustrating, time consuming deal when I did this before. What
am I not doing right, need to change, etc?

It's these dumb "improvements" that really get me aggravated &
frustrated to such a degree with word that makes me wish for the day
that a google or someone else will produce something that replaces it
in a large corporate setting.

That aside, can anyone offer any help?

Thanks.

 

[seanseaghan]

Under tools\options\general tab, I unchecked the "automatically create
drawing canvas when inserting autoshapes" option, and that gets rid of
the 'creae your drawing here box. However, when I try to draw the
arrow over the screen shot, it blanks out the area of the shot that
arrowed line is over. The outline of the screen shot remains.

Please help!!

Thank you.

 

[seanseaghan]

FINALLY figured it out. In addition to to unchecking the "autmatically
create drawing canvas..." opiton, I right clicked on the arrowed line,
selected format auto shape, layout tab, and selected the "infront of
text" option.

This gives me what I need, which is what I have used in the past. Man,
that was one aggravating SOB of a problem.........

 

[tcebob]

It was good that you talked it through. I think you will begin to feel better now. Oops,
our time is up. See you next week?

But seriously, I have had the same problem and will benefit from your discoveries.

thanks,

rs