Now what I quite like about this is that I can now use this image as I said and link it to somewhere. If I want to edit it I can just click on Edit and it’s going to take me back into the Google Drawings menu where I can make my changes and if I click save it’s going to update here. So I can resize it and stuff if I want to. So if I click on it, it looks just like an image. I could do other annotations and stuff as well but for now we’ll just click Save and close and you’ll see it’s popped my button in the Google Doc. So just by doing it in here I’ve sort of made that illusion here of a button. Now I couldn’t normally do a text box in Google Docs. So I will make my font a little bit better and click here. So let’s say a good example, I’m looking for a button that might say ‘click here’ or something like that. I might want a background on it, and I might want to put a border so we’ll just quickly decorate it up a little bit and we can put text in here.

So let’s say I’m looking for a text box here. So in here I can pop in text boxes, shapes, etc. So this is like the canvas we would get if we opened Google Drawings from Google Drive, but it’s embedded in the Google Doc. And as you can see that’s opened Drawings in a canvas. So we come up to the Insert menu at the top here and then go down to Drawing. To pop a drawing in a Google Doc you actually do it from within the doc itself. So let’s start with Drawing, and this one’s been around for the longest amount of time. So you’ll see on my screen, I’ve got listed here Google Drawings, Google Slides, and Google Sheets and we can embed these three types of things easily in a Google Doc. In this short video I’m going to talk about all the different types of content we can embed in a Google Doc.

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How to insert shape in google docs