Create your drawing here.

Question

Would anyone know how to turn off the "Create your drawing here." box when you want to draw a line? Every time I click the line icon on the toolbar of my MS Word 2003, the "Create your drawing here." box pops up dividing my docu and spreading it over several pages. I have wondered why the "Create your drawing here." box pops up at all because it is not required to draw the line. I simply scroll back to where I want the line, which is always somewhere outside the box, and draw my line. Earlier today the docu I was creating required several lines. It sure was frustrating chasing my docu all over the place to draw all those lines. All ideas, comments and suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, K.

Answer 1

Select Tools | Options...

Activate the General tab.

Clear the check box "Automatically create drawing canvas when inserting AutoShapes".

Answer 2

Wow! Thanks. That is a really big help. Appreciate your considering and responding to my post. K.