

To use your trackpad as a canvas and draw in Microsoft Word, make sure you’re on the Draw pad and then enable the toggle labeled Draw with Trackpad.įinally, you can customize the drawing tools to your liking by deleting or rearranging them in Word toolbar. This lets you create more intricate drawings if desired because all of your trackpad movements can correspond to putting (virtual) ink to paper. An alternative method is to use the trackpad as a canvas, i.e., pretend that your Mac’s trackpad has become a piece of paper that you can draw on. In other words, you click and drag to draw a line. The steps above let you use the trackpad or other input device to draw individual lines and shapes. You can then start drawing directly in your Word document using the trackpad, mouse, or dedicated drawing tablet.

Open or create a Word document and then select the Draw tab from the toolbar at the top of the window.
