- [Instructor] If you have a computer with a touch screen
and a stylist, you can just get out your stylist
and draw something directly on your document,
but there are drawing options available
even if you have a computer
that does not work with a stylist.
On my Windows computer,
I want to right click somewhere on the ribbon,
in this menu, I want to choose customize the ribbon
and you'll see there's an option here
to enable the draw ribbon.
Just click on that to turn it on, then click OK,
and now up at the top I have the draw ribbon.
That will be there by default
if you have a computer with a pen stylist
and it will be there on a Mac as well,
but if you don't have it by default, you can just add it.
And there are different drawing tools here,
there are a few pin tools and a highlighter.
You can select the drawing tool that you want,
and when it's selected, you can click this arrow under it,
to open the menu where you can change the thickness
or the color of it.
Now, if you have an actual stylist,
you could just draw with it at any time
and you don't necessarily need to come to this ribbon.
But if you do not have a stylist,
you will need to actually come here
and manually select one of these tools.
And then you could just draw with your mouse,
which can be kind of awkward, but it can be done.
So I'm just going to draw something there.
Now, Microsoft word treats these drawings like shapes.
So you can switch to the selection tool
that's the arrow here in the draw ribbon,
then you can click on one of those drawings
and it's selected.
So you could move it around
or you could grab one of the corners to resize it.
And since it is a shape, when it is selected,
the shape format ribbon will be available up at the top
and you can apply some of the shape formatting options
to that drawing.
Also, when it's selected like this,
you could just hit the delete key on your keyboard
to delete it,
or you can go back to the draw ribbon
and switch to the eraser tool.
Now with that selected,
I'll click the arrow here to open up this menu,
and you'll see there are two different types of erasers.
If you choose point eraser and then drag across a line,
it just erases where you drag.
But if you switch to the full eraser,
it will erase entire pin strokes at a time.
Now, of course we saw it's kind of awkward
to draw with a mouse,
but that's where the ink to shape option
can be really helpful.
So I'm going to choose one of my drawing tools,
then I'll turn on ink to shape,
then I'm going to draw a rough oval
in my document once again,
and you'll see it will automatically refine it
to a perfect shape.
And let me try that again by drawing a rectangle
and it refines that as well.
So that ink to shape option
can really help you draw perfect shapes.
Okay, I'm going to undo the last few things I drew
by clicking the undo button in the quick access toolbar,
I'll turn off ink to shape,
and the next option here is ink to math.
Now this is really best on a computer
with a stylist where you are taking handwritten notes.
You can use this space
to write handwritten mathematical equations,
which can be refined and insert into the document.
But for now, I'm just going to cancel that.
And if you do not want to draw
over the content of a document,
you can choose the drawing canvas,
but it's a good idea to treat this like inserting a picture.
So first you want to place your cursor
somewhere in the document,
and to do that, you'll need to choose
the arrow tool here in the draw ribbon,
and then you can just click somewhere in your document
to place your cursor, then you can insert a drawing canvas.
So I'll click on that, and I have that canvas here,
and then you can treat it a lot like a picture
or other object in your document.
So you can resize it, you can move it around,
but once you have this canvas,
you can select a drawing tool
and you've got a space dedicated for that drawing.
Okay, for now, I'm just going to undo that
by clicking the undo button in the quick access toolbar.
And the last thing we want to look at
is the ink replay option.
To use that, of course,
I want to select a drawing tool first,
and then you can draw something in your document.
So once again, I'll draw an oval here
and I'm also going to draw an arrow,
I want to have something with multiple pen strokes.
And once you've done that,
you can click the ink replay button,
which will play back those pin strokes
in the order that you made them.
And that could be really useful
in a presentation environment.
So if you have a computer with a pen stylist,
I think these drawing tools
can really bring Word to another level
with handwritten notes and sketches.
And if you don't have a pen enabled computer,
you can still access and use some of those drawing tools.