Vocabulary

Using Drawing Tools

MS Word 2007 Ribbons

– An organized group of related commands displayed by clicking its tab. Each collection of commands found in a ribbon is further grouped into sections.

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Drawing Tools

– A ribbon that allows you to insert shapes and choose shape styles such as color fill, outline color and line weight, size, layout, and even fill effects.

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Shapes

– MS Word 2007 offers hundreds of shapes organized into categories such as basic shapes, lines, block arrows, flowcharts, callouts, and stars and banners.

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Shadow Effects

– Allow you to enhance the image with various drop shadows, shadow styles, and shadow colors/gradients.

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Charts

- Visually organize information or numbers. MS Word 2007 offers over 11 types of charts, including line charts, pie charts, bar charts, and even scatter charts.

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Smart Art

– Easy to create pre-formatted but customizable diagrams used to graphically display a critical point in the document. This includes diagrams to illustrate lists, processes, cycles, hierarchies, relationships, matrices, and pyramids.

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Position/Text Wrapping

– A layout option that allows you to position the image horizontally and vertically, as well as “wrap text” around an image, bring text in front of an image, bring the image in front of the text, put the image in line with the text etc.

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Rotate

– An option that allows you to transform the image by rotating it to the right or left 90 degrees or flip it vertically or horizontally.

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