4 Tips for Beginners to Word: Canvas

4 Tips for Beginners to Word: Canvas covers the essential facts behind the topic, including what changed, why it mattered, and how it affected users.

Canvas Overview

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If you're using new versions of Word, you've probably experienced frustration when you need to insert graphics because of the default Drawing Canvas function. You have to draw the image, then drag it out of the canvas so that the next step can remove the canvas without affecting the drawing. It's a waste of time! The following trick will help you eliminate this inconvenience. Go to Tools> Options> General , delete the check box before Automatically create drawing canvas when inserting AutoShapes and click OK (Figure 1). 3. Move the text In addition to helping you rename the file, the F2 key also has another feature that few would expect to help you quickly move text in Word. Select the text you want to move, press F2 , use the arrow keys to move to a new location and press Enter . Steamed, that passage has 'come to the end'! To exit this function, simply press Esc . 4. Find and replace special characters

Figure 2

MS Word's Find and Replace function is already familiar but you must only use it to search for common words. There is still a hidden ability, which is to search for characters that do not show up when printing like spaces between letters or paragraphs. Open the Find and Replace window by going to Edit> Find or Replace. Then click the More> Special button. The special characters are listed here, so you just need to choose the one you want to find or replace (Figure 2). HOANG DUNG