I use Microsoft Word to write a tehcnical document. When I embed illustrations in the document, I use a canvas [my own translation from Swedish ('arbetsyta')] and draw inside it. This way I can manage the whole illustration as one single 'package'. However, I experience one problem with this approach (besides a large number of bugs in Word). I use a circle sector to draw angles between two lines, as illustrated below (the angle φ).
But now I cannot crop the canvas as to remove the large whitespace in the upper part of it, because the circle sector occupies this area:
What is the most convenient workaround?
Best Answer
Word is fine for the letters, but not for drawing. I reccomend using a different software for drawing and embedding pdf, emf or any other format to the Word document.
If that is too difficult or you have other reasons for not using some external image editor you can use a general curve or an arc of smaller diameter than would be geometrically precise.