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acs42
Copper Contributor
Dec 02, 2017

Draw tools are greyed out

I enabled the draw tools tab for my PC Excel 2016, but the tools are all greyed out.
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Digcoal
Copper Contributor
Aug 30, 2019
Hi, all. New to the forums. Late to the party. I want to say thanks for leading me in the right direction for this, and I would like to add that my particular problem was that I was in View>Page Layout. Draw Tool seem to only work in View>Normal or View>Page Break Preview. Warmest Regards
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    P_ANUP_KUMAR
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 06, 2021

    Digcoal 

    THIS HAS WORKED OUT FOR ME TOO THANKYOU.

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    kozm0s
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 26, 2020
    Thank you for your feedback. I had the same issue on my SP7 with the official Microsoft Pen. The solution worked for me. As mentioned, the Draw Tool only works in certain View layouts.
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    jcraok
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 14, 2019

    Digcoal Cheers for the heads up on this! It has been driving me nuts with draw being greyed out in Word. Changing the "view" from "web layout" which is where it defaulted to "Print Layout" enabled the draw tools.

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      Barbara_Presley
      Copper Contributor
      Feb 23, 2021

      jcraok

       

      I'm new to this, so I'm not sure I'm replying to the right person.  This fix did not work for me.  Any other suggestions?

       

    • Adrian Long's avatar
      Adrian Long
      Copper Contributor
      Jun 25, 2020

      jcraok , same thing with me too. I changed the document view to "page layout" and got my pens back! 

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        AndiagoSupremo
        Copper Contributor
        Feb 04, 2022
        That was it. I have adobted View, Web Layout (since WFH I never print) and that greys out the Draw tools, so switching to Print Layout restores them. The drawing will show under Web layout, but it can't be changed.

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