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How to Draw a Circle in Word Mac TUTORIAL

Adding Circles effectually Letters or Numbers

When Des writes paper notes, she frequently puts squares effectually certain letters or numbers and circles around others. This is her ain "lawmaking" that allows her to key in on data she needs to pay attending to. Des can relatively easily put squares effectually messages or numbers in a Discussion document (using borders), but she hasn't found a fashion to add circles.

There are actually a few ways you can go about this. One way, of form, is to use the graphics capabilities built into Word to create a shape (a circle) that tin can exist placed around whatsoever messages or numbers you desire. A quick mode to do this is to customize the Quick Access Toolbar so it includes the Oval tool. (How yous customize the QAT has been covered in other WordTips. The Oval tool is found by listing All Commands during the configuration procedure.)

Once the Oval tool is in identify, click on it and you can and then utilise the mouse pointer to depict the circle. Just agree down the Shift key as you lot click and drag, and you lot are guaranteed of a perfect circle. Of course, the circumvolve is filled in with a colour, merely all you lot need to do is use the Fill tool (on the Format tab, visible immediately later drawing the circle) to choose No Fill. You tin fifty-fifty correct-click the circumvolve and choose Fix As Default. This assures that the adjacent use of the Oval tool results in a no-fill shape. (You'll nevertheless need to concord down Shift, however, to ensure you create a circle.)

The benefit to this approach is that you can brand the circumvolve any size you want and whatsoever color you lot want. The drawback is that it adds graphic shapes to your document—they can sometimes be hard to position and they increase the size of your certificate file.

Some other approach is to "enclose" your characters. This is achieved through a different command yous tin can add to the Quick Access Toolbar. When configuring, again display All Commands and look for ane named Enclose Graphic symbol. When you've added it to the QAT, apply it past selecting some text (either one or two characters, no more than) and and so clicking the tool. You then come across the Enclose Character dialog box displayed. (See Figure one.)

Figure i. The Enclose Character dialog box.

Here y'all tin can select how you want the text affected (shrunk or enlarged) and what blazon of shape you want to use to enclose the text (circumvolve, square, triangle, etc.). When you click on OK, the text is adapted through the utilise of an EQ field. You'll need to play with this approach a chip to determine if information technology works just the way you want.

A tertiary mode you can tackle this problem is to use a font that already has characters enclosed inside circles. This is really built into Word 2007, Word 2010, and Discussion 2013. Follow these steps:

Position the insertion point where you want the circled text.
Display the Insert tab of the ribbon.
In the Symbols group, click the Symbol tool and then choose More than Symbols. Word displays the Symbol dialog box.
Using the Font drop-downwards list, choose Arial Unicode MS.
Brand sure that the From drop-down list is set to Unicode (Hex).
Using the Subset drop-down list, choose Enclosed Alphanumerics. (You will need to scroll through the drop-down options a ways to find this.) (See Figure 2.)

Figure ii. The Symbol dialog box.

Select the symbol you want to use. (If you scroll down a bit y'all'll also discover circled uppercase messages and circled lowercase letters.)
Click Insert.
Close the Symbol dialog box.

The drawback to this approach is that information technology works simply for the numbers i through 20 and for unmarried letters (upper-case letter or lowercase). These steps also won't work in Give-and-take 2016 because—for some inexplicable reason—Microsoft removed the Arial Unicode MS font, and it seems that none of the installed fonts has the Enclosed Alphanumerics subset included. Yous could, of course, search the Web for a downloadable font that would include circled characters.

WordTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Word training. (Microsoft Word is the most popular discussion processing software in the world.) This tip (13436) applies to Microsoft Word 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016.

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How to Draw a Circle in Word Mac TUTORIAL