How can I add simple drawings to word?

[Guest]

Hello

Please help alleviate my suffering.

I am writing an article for a friend using Word. Every now and again I want
to illustrate my ideas with a few text boxes making a flow diagram.

So I want to write a paragraph introducing a concept and then underneath
make a simple diagram of my idea and then continue writing.

Each time I go to add a text box from the 'Drawing Toolbar' I get a big
label on my Word document that says 'Add your drawing here'. The problem is
that I cannot make this entire box smaller and it is impossible to place the
cursor underneath the box to start writing again. How do i get around this?
How can I painlessly add simple drawings?

Any advice really welcome.

Regards


Alex

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi Alex,

In Tools > Options > General, turn off "Automatically create drawing canvas
when inserting AutoShapes".

 

[Guest]

Mr Freedman

Thank you for that help. That has helped me accomplish my task.

Regards


Alex