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word 2003 cant draw wont draw?
Help! I'm going crazy! This question is either the most advanced question on
this bulletin board or the most simplest. Please assume its the former for my sake. Right here goes, when I open word 2003 it deceptively opens without any incident, then when I click to open a new document it opens one without much ado. Then even when I go so far as to ask for the drawing toolbar it allows me to do so. I even get to click on the draw item Autoshapes, textboxes, lines you name it and the pointer changes accordingly and the canvas layer comes on also. But for the love of ---- why wont it allow me to draw the item rather than clicking off as though there is some mysterious force which wont allow it - some prime directive? Its not that the document is protected as that disables the drawing of such items so why?? what am I missing. I have trawled the internet on this point and havent found anyone with this problem. Its getting so I feel as though I need to join a secretive Word 2003 'cult' somewhere based in a commune atop a mountain and spend 20 years in meditative silence contemplating the nature of the pointer or whether to use mail merge or not before I will be initiated into the reason why. Any help on this would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. |
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word 2003 cant draw wont draw?
It's not clear from your message exactly what's happening. I don't know what
"clicking off" means. Are you saying that the moment you try to draw something, Word crashes, closes precipitously... or makes a clicking noise and stops responding. You might try the troubleshooting steps shown (a number of Word problems share similar causes, so don't be fooled by the article title): http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...peningWord.htm -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "Monk" Monk @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message ... Help! I'm going crazy! This question is either the most advanced question on this bulletin board or the most simplest. Please assume its the former for my sake. Right here goes, when I open word 2003 it deceptively opens without any incident, then when I click to open a new document it opens one without much ado. Then even when I go so far as to ask for the drawing toolbar it allows me to do so. I even get to click on the draw item Autoshapes, textboxes, lines you name it and the pointer changes accordingly and the canvas layer comes on also. But for the love of ---- why wont it allow me to draw the item rather than clicking off as though there is some mysterious force which wont allow it - some prime directive? Its not that the document is protected as that disables the drawing of such items so why?? what am I missing. I have trawled the internet on this point and havent found anyone with this problem. Its getting so I feel as though I need to join a secretive Word 2003 'cult' somewhere based in a commune atop a mountain and spend 20 years in meditative silence contemplating the nature of the pointer or whether to use mail merge or not before I will be initiated into the reason why. Any help on this would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. |
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word 2003 cant draw wont draw?
No word doesnt crash it just doesnt let me draw anything. It acts as though
the document were password protected, yet it isnt password protected. It allows me to select the textbox, line I want to draw yet doesnt allow me to do it? "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: It's not clear from your message exactly what's happening. I don't know what "clicking off" means. Are you saying that the moment you try to draw something, Word crashes, closes precipitously... or makes a clicking noise and stops responding. You might try the troubleshooting steps shown (a number of Word problems share similar causes, so don't be fooled by the article title): http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...peningWord.htm -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "Monk" Monk @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message ... Help! I'm going crazy! This question is either the most advanced question on this bulletin board or the most simplest. Please assume its the former for my sake. Right here goes, when I open word 2003 it deceptively opens without any incident, then when I click to open a new document it opens one without much ado. Then even when I go so far as to ask for the drawing toolbar it allows me to do so. I even get to click on the draw item Autoshapes, textboxes, lines you name it and the pointer changes accordingly and the canvas layer comes on also. But for the love of ---- why wont it allow me to draw the item rather than clicking off as though there is some mysterious force which wont allow it - some prime directive? Its not that the document is protected as that disables the drawing of such items so why?? what am I missing. I have trawled the internet on this point and havent found anyone with this problem. Its getting so I feel as though I need to join a secretive Word 2003 'cult' somewhere based in a commune atop a mountain and spend 20 years in meditative silence contemplating the nature of the pointer or whether to use mail merge or not before I will be initiated into the reason why. Any help on this would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. |
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word 2003 cant draw wont draw?
Are you drawing in the canvas? If not, you probably don't need the canvas.
You can disable it on the General tab of Tools | Options. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Monk" wrote in message ... No word doesnt crash it just doesnt let me draw anything. It acts as though the document were password protected, yet it isnt password protected. It allows me to select the textbox, line I want to draw yet doesnt allow me to do it? "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: It's not clear from your message exactly what's happening. I don't know what "clicking off" means. Are you saying that the moment you try to draw something, Word crashes, closes precipitously... or makes a clicking noise and stops responding. You might try the troubleshooting steps shown (a number of Word problems share similar causes, so don't be fooled by the article title): http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...peningWord.htm -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "Monk" Monk @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message ... Help! I'm going crazy! This question is either the most advanced question on this bulletin board or the most simplest. Please assume its the former for my sake. Right here goes, when I open word 2003 it deceptively opens without any incident, then when I click to open a new document it opens one without much ado. Then even when I go so far as to ask for the drawing toolbar it allows me to do so. I even get to click on the draw item Autoshapes, textboxes, lines you name it and the pointer changes accordingly and the canvas layer comes on also. But for the love of ---- why wont it allow me to draw the item rather than clicking off as though there is some mysterious force which wont allow it - some prime directive? Its not that the document is protected as that disables the drawing of such items so why?? what am I missing. I have trawled the internet on this point and havent found anyone with this problem. Its getting so I feel as though I need to join a secretive Word 2003 'cult' somewhere based in a commune atop a mountain and spend 20 years in meditative silence contemplating the nature of the pointer or whether to use mail merge or not before I will be initiated into the reason why. Any help on this would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. |
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