Click the Table button on the Insert tab and choose Draw Table from the menu that appears. Use the Image Editor toolbar or go to menu Image Tools and select a Closed-Figure Drawing tool. The Closed-Figure Drawing tools create figures as indicated on their respective buttons. If necessary, select colors and a line width. Move the pointer to one corner of the rectangular area in which you want to draw the figure. This feature requires Office for Mac 1100. It works in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel and requires a trackpad to be present—either a built-in trackpad like on a MacBook or a connected trackpad like the Apple Magic Trackpad. On the Draw tab of the ribbon, switch the Draw with Trackpad option to On. A drawing window appears onscreen.

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2. Microsoft Word Drawing Tool
3. Drawing Tool In Microsoft Word For Mac Catalina

Looked some more, and apparently there is no freehand drawing tools in Word for Mac 2016. Otherwise, you would see a Drawing tab (which has replaced the Ink tab now in Office). To select part of a drawing or words written in ink, use the Lasso Select tool. (This tool can't select non-ink objects—that is, shapes, pictures, etc.) Under Draw Tools on the Ribbon, tap Lasso Select. With your pen or finger, drag to draw a circle around the part of the drawing or word that you want to select.

A cool new feature in Office 2016 let’s you draw, highlight and add comments to a Word document. I am so excited about this new feature and have already found a few uses for it. So, let’s see what it’s all about.

The Draw Tool in Word

Which Versions of Word Have the Draw Feature?

The drawing and annotating feature was released in an update to Word 2016. So, if you’re using Word 2016 you can draw or comment on a Word document.

If you have an Office 365 subscription you get all the latest updates so you also can use this new feature.

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Do Other Office Programs Have the Drawing Tool?

Yes! This new feature was released for all of Office 2016 so it’s also available in Excel, Powerpoint and more. In this article we’re going to explain how to use the feature in Word. You can use the same techniques to write comments and highlight items in your Powerpoint or Excel file as well.

How to Use the Drawing Tool in Word

How to Add a Comment on a Word Document

The draw feature has its own menu.

1. To access the draw tools, click on draw in the menu.
2. To write on the Word document, click on the draw with touch button.
3. Now, use your mouse, finger (if you have a touchscreen) or pen (if you’re lucky enough to have a Surface, which hopefully I will someday 🙂 ) to write comments directly onto the Word document.

How to Highlight a Word Document

To highlight sections of a word document you follow a similar method:

1. Click on the draw menu
2. Click draw with touch
3. Select one of the highlighting tools on the right
4. Change the color and thickness using the buttons to the right
5. Use your mouse pointer, finger or pen to highlight your Word document

In this example I used the drawing tool to draw and highlight on a resume template. See how easy and convenient it is to add notes, comments and highlight areas on a document?

How to Delete Comments in a Word Document

After you’ve added comments it’s easy to delete comments in a Word document.

1. Click on the draw menu
2. Click eraser
3. Use your mouse pointer, finger or pen to delete comments in your Word document

How to Change or Edit Comments in your Document

Say you don’t want to delete your comments but want to, instead, change them. You can also edit (or change) your drawing, highlights and comments in your document.

1. Select the draw menu
2. Select ink editor
3. Click on the comment, highlight or drawing you’d like to change
4. You can now modify your drawing by:
   • Click the delete button to delete it
   • Drag the edges of the box to change its size
   • Click on drawing tools and outline color to change its color

Use Drawing Tools in Word to Share Comments with Others

When you’re done drawing, editing and highlighting your Word document you can save it and send it off to someone else for viewing.

When another user opens your document that has comments they can see your comments on the document.

Or, the other user can watch your comments, as you created them. To watch the comments as they were drawn the user would:

1. Open the draw menu
2. Click on ink replay

Conclusion

I’ve found the commenting, highlighting and drawing options so helpful in Word.

One way I’ve used these is in creating articles for this blog and others. If I’m drafting a blog post in Word I like to also use the same document to store research for it. Using the Windows snipping tool I will take portions of screenshots from the internet and save them directly in the Word document. Then, with the drawing tool, I can highlight and circle sections to help guide my writing.

Have you found other ways to use this great new tool? I’d love to hear how others are using it to save time and be more efficient!

Reference

Drawing Tool On Microsoft Word

• Microsoft Office Website

Many dedicated programs do only flowcharts, and although Microsoft creates another program called Visio for Windows users that's more flowchart savvy than mainstream Microsoft Office programs, there's no version of Visio available for Mac users. And it really doesn't matter too much if all you need to do is create a basic flowchart. Mainstream Office programs such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint can create flowcharts easily, and have all abilities and options you need to create almost any type of flowchart. What's more, you don’t have to buy and learn yet another program to do something that's so simple!

Actually, adding a flowchart within a Microsoft Office program is as simple as adding a few shapes. We will use MicrosoftPowerPoint 2011 for Mac in this example but you could really be using Word or Excel versions of Office 2011 to do the same task.

If you already need to create a flowchart in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, then the choice has already been made for you. Alternatively, here are some thoughts that will help you decide which of these three programs work best for your flowcharts:

• Word is great for simple flowcharts with few shapes as long as they all fit within the page constraints of Word.
• PowerPoint has similar slide constraints like Word's page constraints. However, for larger flowcharts, you can use PowerPoint's hyperlinking options that let you spread the same flowchart over multiple slides.
• Excel’s large screen real estate within each workbook does make it a great home for detailed or complicated flowcharts.

Microsoft Word Drawing Tool

Follow these steps to get started:

Drawing Tool In Microsoft Word For Mac Catalina

1. Let’s start with a blank, new slide that contains a slide title and nothing else, as shown in Figure 1, below. If you are using Word, just substitute the blank slide area with a blank area on your document. Excel users can similarly use an available, blank range of cells in their workbook.
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   Figure 1: Empty slide with a title
2. In PowerPoint or Word, access the Home tab of the Ribbon. Locate the Insert group and within this group, click the Shape button. Doing so brings up the Shape drop-down gallery, as shown in Figure 2, below.
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   Figure 2: Shape drop-down gallery
4. In Excel (or even Word and PowerPoint), select the InsertShape menu option. This brings up a Media browser window, with the Shapes tab active, as shown in Figure 3.
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   Figure 3: Media browser
3. There are plenty of shapes that are arranged in various categories. To create flowcharts, only two of these categories matter to you. These are the Lines and Connectors and Flowchart categories, highlighted in red and blue respectively within Figures 2 and 3, above.
4. Let us now explore the various shapes available within these categories. First let us explore the Flowchart category. There are 28 flowchart shapes available here. Hover your cursor over any of these shapes to see a tool tip that provides you with the name/description of the hovered shape (see Figure 4, below).
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   Figure 4: Flowchart shapes are described within the tool tips
Note: Want to know more about all the flowchart shapes? Look at our Flowchart Symbols: What They Represent? page.
5. Now, select the Terminator shape within the Flowchart shapes gallery (see Figure 5).
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   Figure 5: Select the Terminator shape
6. Your cursor will turn into a crosshair. Drag and draw on your slide, document, or worksheet to place an instance of the terminator shape, as shown in Figure 6, below.
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   Figure 6: Place a Terminator shape to start your flowchart
7. With your terminator shape still selected, start typing. We just typed “Start”. Anything you type shows up within the flowchart shape, as shown in Figure 7, below.
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   Figure 7: Text within your flowchart shape
8. Now add a shape to represent a decision. Choose the Decision (Diamond) shape option from the Flowchart category within the Shapes gallery (refer to Figure 4, above). Then drag and draw to place an instance of the shape on your slide (or document/sheet). Now type in some text. We just typed “Are you happy?”, as shown in Figure 8, below.
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   Figure 8: Text that makes you happy?
9. We now need to link the Terminator shape to the Decision shape using a connector. To do so, access the Shape drop-down gallery (see Figure 2, above) and select the second shape within the Lines and Connectors category (see Figure 9, below). This shape is a connector that has an arrowhead at one end. We need the arrowhead end of the connector to be “connected” to your Decision shape and the non-arrowhead end will emanate from the Terminator shape. We won't get into details about how connectors work in this tutorial. You can learn more about connectors in our Using Flowchart and Connector Shapes Together in Office 2011 tutorial.
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    Figure 9: Choose a connector with an arrowhead
10. Figure 10 shows a connector that links both our shapes. To make sure that your connector indeed “connects”, select any shape, and hit any of the arrow keys on your keyboard to nudge the shape. You will find that the connector reorients according to the new position of your moved shape.
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    Figure 10: Shapes connected to each other
11. Similarly, add two more shapes that connect to your existing Decision shape, as shown in Figure 11, below. We added a connected Process (rectangle) shape on the right and another connected Decision (diamond) shape at the bottom.
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    Figure 11: More shapes added to the flowchart
12. As you can see within Figure 11, above, there are two options emanating from the “Are you happy?” decision shape. Decision shapes typically have more than one output emanating from them so as to create a decision. In this case, the decision will be based on whether the answer to the “Are you happy?” question is Yes or No. We therefore need to identify the two emanating connectors as Yes or No to make this flowchart sequence logical. To do so, you need to place text boxes with Yes and No captions next to the relevant connectors. This process is explained in our Formatting Connectors within Flowcharts in Office 2011 tutorial.
13. Once you add Yes and No captions to your connectors, your flowchart will look similar to the one shown in Figure 12, below.
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    Figure 12: Flowchart with Yes and No captions
14. Continue adding flowchart shapes and link them with connectors. Finally, you will need to add a “Stop” Terminator shape to complete your flowchart, as shown in Figure 13, below.
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    Figure 13: Complete Flowchart
16. Save your documents often!