How to Draw in Google Docs
In short, drawing in Google Docs lets you create inside-document images with text boxes, shapes, lines, word art, upload and draw over uploaded images, and arrange their layout. This is just great if you need to graphically explain something, taking you just 5 minutes due to a tool's simplicity.
Watch the video from https://thegoodocs.com/ and find out How to Draw in Google Docs.
How to Add Word Art in Google Docs?
- Create or open the document in Google Docs. In your document, put a cursor where you require to create the drawing
- Click Insert, put your mouse on Drawing, and choose + New
- The new workspace will appear right away, and this is your creative area. Here you can choose a particular type of drawing that you want. Select the type of drawing you are going to create in the Actions menu. Select Word art
- Now you see a text field, where you type whatever you want. Use Shift + Enter to add more lines. When you are ready, click Enter to finish
- To scale it up, you press on either of the squares and move them till you reach the suitable position, and use this circle on top to rotate it.
So, when you select the item, the toolbar is updated with your regular text formatting features.
How to Customize Your Word Art?
Let us customize our sample a little.
Toolbar Overview
- Here you have Undo and Redo buttons, and then Zoom options, where you select a better view, Show ruler button and Show guides button to make the drawing more accurate and organized, snap options, and the Full-screen mode, turning off the toolbar.
- The mouse button to return to the selection mode
How to Create and Customize a Shape?
Here below, you can see the button with a drop-down list to select the shape from.
How to Create and Customize a Text Box?
- You can move the figure, rotate it, but you cannot change its size by default, as it is bound to text size. But you can press the button on the left to the text box and unlock that feature by pressing Do not autofit and do whatever you want with its size.
How to Insert an Image?
Great! So, our team sincerely hopes that you will find this tutorial helpful. Start practicing and learn Google Docs further. Good luck!
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