I've never used "Word Draw" (I'm not even sure what it is)...but, what happens if you use the Drawing Toolbar in Word? Are you still not able to delete or edit the autoshapes you add using that? Linda F. Johnson, M.A., MOS Linda's Computer Stop http://personal-computer-tutor.com Free e-Books, Newsletter, and tutorials -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of paul z Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 5:05 AM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] MS Word 2000 Draw I use MS Word 2000 Draw to draw simple layouts that have squares, triangles, etc. I color in these squares, triangle using the draw program of Word 2000 and save the drawing in My Documents. When I go back to these drawings and try to change the color or shape of these items I cannot change them. I can't even delete them. I have two different versions of MS Word 2000. One is with MS Office Small Business Office 2000 and the other is with MS Works 2000. I only have one version of MS Word 2000 in my PC at a time. I have taken one version of MS Word out and installed the other version and it did not help with the problem. I have deleted Normal.dot, restarted my PC to go back to defaults, I have changed normal.dot to normal.old, I have scanned my PC for viruses and nothing has changed to rid me of the problem. Can some one tell me why I cannot change item such as squares or triangles on a MS Word 2000 draw document. I do not have any problem changing text or lines in any part of Word 2000. I have no other problem with my PC but this one. I have even tried disabling macros and that did not work. I checked for macro viruses and found none. Can some one help me correct the problem mentioned above. I have gone to the MS site and found no answers. If no one can answer this can you lead me to a site that can? ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************