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Default Drawing a circle around a portion of print screen in a Word docume

Eden397 wrote:
Hi,
This is probably very simple, but I have a Word Document with a
screen shot in the middle of the page. On that screen shot, there is
a field I want to circle in red. I am utterly lost in trying to do
this. When I draw an oval around it, the field is whited out. Help.
Thanks Eden 397


The out-of-the-box default for drawing shapes is an opaque white fill. What
you want is "no fill", which is not the same. After drawing the oval, click
the down arrow of the Fill button on the Drawing toolbar and select "No
Fill". You can also click the down arrow of the Line Color button and choose
red.

When you have it the way you want it, right-click the oval and click "Set
AutoShape Defaults" to keep the same settings for all shapes you draw later
in the same document. Unfortunately, the settings don't automatically carry
over from one document to the next; to do that, you must open the template
itself and set the AutoShape defaults there, and then they'll be the
defaults for all documents based on that template.

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