For drawing in an MS Word for Mac 2016 document, a canvas is apparently no longer necessary. Is it nevertheless available in any way? I liked them; they helped keep things contained.
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UPDATE: I am running on OS X. Have been informed that it is rather different from Word on Windows machines.
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On Windows Word 2016, the option is called
New Canvas Drawing and is at the bottom of Insert tab->Illustrations group->Shapes dropdown.
There is no such option on Mac Word 2016 (or 2011 for that matter). Word VBA on Mac does not currently have the AddCanvas command that the Windows version has, either, so it does not look as if you can create a macro to add one. (If you try to use the command to insert a shape of type msoCanvas, you get something that looks like a No Entry road sign, and it does not work like a canvas).
Because the canvas feature is not provided on Mac, it is difficult to recommend using them, as they may not actually be supported.
However, if you create a document on Windows Word and insert a canvas, then open that in Mac Word 2016 (or 2011), you get a Canvas that appears to work in a similar way on Mac. https://pentree278.weebly.com/word-for-mac-show-hidden-text.html. So if you have such a document, you could
Then use the autotext feature to insert the canvas.
If you do not have such a document, you can use the XML I have provided below. To do that,
You should then be able to open canvas.xml in Word. The canvas probably won't be visible until you click on it (it's at the top left of the document in the main text area).
Then save the canvas as an autotext, as suggested earlier.
user181946
On Mac You can insert a shape staright in word and then use tab 'Shape Format' --> Arrange --> position --> 'in line with text'
will give you the same effect as the canvas.
Mandeep SinghMandeep Singh
The following should help:
You can find New Drawing Canvas at the bottom of the Shapes drop-down list.
Source: How to Work with the Drawing Canvas in Word 2016 for Windows
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This answer was written towards Office 2016 on Windows. When I originally submitted this answer, the question made no mention of OS X, so I wrote it towards the only version of Office I knew. I am keeping this answer, since everyone else still find use out of it, but if people don't find it helpful I will just delete it.
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