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Turning off the Drawing Canvas

Sick of the Drawing canvas appearing when you are attempting to create shapes from the Drawing toolbar in your Word document?

You can change the settings in Word to ensure that the Drawing canvas never bothers you again.

1. Go to Tools - Options.
2. Select the General tab.
3. Deselect 'Automatically create drawing canvas when inserting AutoShapes'.
4. Click OK.

Added by Amanda on 6th October 2006

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