This article presents guidelines on the use of the Microsoft Office software. The software's most obnoxious new feature is the Drawing Canvas. Whenever you use a tool in the Drawing toolbar in Word 2002 or 2003 Word insists on creating a box to hold the graphic. When you put pictures, lines, squares, ovals, or other drawings in the canvas, Word treats them as a group, so you can move or resize them as one unit or add snap-to connectors between the drawing elements. Microsoft says it wanted to help users move or resize drawings quickly. To get rid of the Drawing Canvas, click Tools Options General, and uncheck Automatically Create Drawing Canvas When Inserting AutoShapes. To move or resize drawings as a group, select the drawings by pressing Control while clicking them, and then choose Draw Group on the Drawing Toolbar. If you need to use snap-to connectors, click Insert Picture New Drawing to place a big, ugly Drawing Canvas inside your sleek, svelte document. Every time you open a file in an Office XP or 2003 application by clicking File Open, a list of icons appears in the left pane. The My Places Bar lets you open folders with just one click. But even though it rates as a first-class time-saver, this feature suffers from one of the worst user interfaces.