What's new with drawing tools?

Word 97 provides a new set of drawing and graphics capabilities that you can use to easily embellish your text and graphics with 3-D effects, shadow effects, textured and transparent fills, and AutoShapes.

Office Art Gives you many new drawing tools and capabilities that can be easily accessed through the new Drawing toolbar. You can easily embellish your text and graphics using the 100 adjustable AutoShapes, 4 types of fill effects ¾ multicolored gradient, textured, transparent, and picture ¾ right-shadow effects, and 3-D effects. Office Art is a rich and sophisticated drawing layer that replaces the Word drawing layer and is shared by all Microsoft Office applications.

Office Art picture objects Gives you all the flexibility required for picture manipulation. For example:· You can easily place pictures anywhere in your document, including inline with text, simply by dragging them.· You can modify the Z order and use Send Behind Text to create a background graphic or watermark effect.

Text boxes Replaces frames and offers the full set of Office Art capabilities, such as 3-D effects, fills, backgrounds, rotation, sizing, and cropping.

Linked text boxes Gives you the ability to link text boxes for desktop publishing use ¾ for example, you can flow an article from page 1 to page 4 in a newsletter. Once two text boxes are linked, text that overflows from the first text box appears at the top of the second one. Any number of text boxes can be linked in any direction.

Wrapping around irregular objects Lets you wrap text around objects of any shape and size. You can wrap text straight to the edge of an irregular object.