Purpose of the Drawing Canvas

Using Office 2003 and Windows XP;

I just recently discovered that you can turn off the drawing canvas (thru
this news group - thanks); I prefer to draw without it, but that leads me to
a rather obvious quesion: What is the purpose of it? If you don't need
it...why use it at all?

Is there any advantage other than perhaps constraining the area that your
drawing can consume? Is that its main/only purpose?

FYI, I'm doing free style drawings that are not constrained to an area of
the page, but may consume a small part or even the entire page. There is no
text sharing space on the page.

Thanks much for your comments and clarifications.

I believe that it and all its contents are scalable.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"XP" <XP DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Using Office 2003 and Windows XP;
>
> I just recently discovered that you can turn off the drawing canvas (thru
> this news group - thanks); I prefer to draw without it, but that leads me
to
> a rather obvious quesion: What is the purpose of it? If you don't need
> it...why use it at all?
>
> Is there any advantage other than perhaps constraining the area that your
> drawing can consume? Is that its main/only purpose?
>
> FYI, I'm doing free style drawings that are not constrained to an area of
> the page, but may consume a small part or even the entire page. There is
no
> text sharing space on the page.
>
> Thanks much for your comments and clarifications.