Word Useful Tip of the Day: how to draw a straight line

Sunday, 3 February, 2013

How many times have you thought you’d just use the drawing tools in Word (2003 in my case!) to draw a straight line to add that extra design dimension to your document to find that it wasn’t quite straight and ended up with some ungainly “jaggies” in it?? Maybe not at all, but every so often for me. So much so that I’ve tried alternative methods for creating line (like using paragraph borders or tables).

In trying to sort out a design today I finally did some online search to find…… press and hold the Shift key whilst dragging until after you’ve released the mouse button. This holds the line to principal points of the compass and ensures it’s straight.

Problem solved :)

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